Dying Alone: The Social Production of Urban Isolation

Ethnography

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 501-531

  Klinenberg, Eric ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; culture of fear; death; natural disasters; poverty; social isolation; social services; urban inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996189084     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14661380122231019     Document Type: Article

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