Dementia-near-death and "life itself"

Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility

Volumn 9780813539270, Issue , 2006, Pages 23-42

  Kaufman, Sharon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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