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Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans : Blessings and Battles.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (120 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812202403
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cancer in the Lives of Older AmericansDDC classification:
  • 618.97/6994
LOC classification:
  • RC281.A34 -- K33 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Finding My Way -- 1 Champagne and Hot Dogs -- 2 Being Old, Having Cancer -- 3 Paradox: Cancer and Aging in America -- 4 Scientific Import and Influence -- 5 Language Lessons -- 6 Aesthetics of Being and Having -- Epilogue: Not a Denial of the Fact of Death, a Denial of Death Now -- Postscript: Completed -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Little has been written to guide clinicians, social scientists, families, and individuals about cancer among the "oldest old." In Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans, Sarah H. Kagan approaches this problem from the perspective of more than twenty years of practice, inquiry, and education as a nurse.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Finding My Way -- 1 Champagne and Hot Dogs -- 2 Being Old, Having Cancer -- 3 Paradox: Cancer and Aging in America -- 4 Scientific Import and Influence -- 5 Language Lessons -- 6 Aesthetics of Being and Having -- Epilogue: Not a Denial of the Fact of Death, a Denial of Death Now -- Postscript: Completed -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

Little has been written to guide clinicians, social scientists, families, and individuals about cancer among the "oldest old." In Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans, Sarah H. Kagan approaches this problem from the perspective of more than twenty years of practice, inquiry, and education as a nurse.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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