Divided gazes: Alzheimer's disease, the person within, and death in life

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

Volumn 9780813539270, Issue , 2006, Pages 240-268

  Leibing, Annette ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b The Institute of Social Gerontology of Quebec   (Canada)

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