How we age : a doctor's journey into the heart of growing old / Marc E. Agronin.

  • Agronin, Marc E.
Date:
[2011], ©2011
  • Books

About this work

Description

A young doctor's reflections on his experiences as a nursing-home psychiatrist--with remarkable stories of vitality and growth that transformed his view of aging.

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

ix, 302 pages ; 22 cm

Contributors

Contents

Heaven can't wait -- Age, I must -- Long time dead? -- Isaac, Erik, Isaac -- Annabe, Bartleby, and the doctor who flunks aging -- Joseph red hair -- Old pickled brain -- Lousy -- The strange but true case of Dawson Da Vinci -- If I forget thee -- Savant, of sorts -- Strength in numbers -- Old soldiers -- Memories, false and fixed -- The elders -- Bereft -- Just words -- Liar, liar -- Rules of four -- Mended -- Lessons from fire -- The seamstress -- Trees.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-302).

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    HQ1061 2011A48h
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780306818530
  • 0306818531