The biomedical deconstruction of senility and the persistent stigmatization of old age in the United States

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

Volumn 9780813539270, Issue , 2006, Pages 106-120

  Ballenger, Jesse F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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