The dignity of the frail: on compassion, terror and social death
This enquiry considers how the dignity of the frail elderly is objectively grounded, socially constructed, and subjectively experienced. The lives of the frail trouble public consciousness. A terror of old age, felt by young or old, is liable to form a toxic affective culture of social death. Agains...
Hovedforfatter: | Hordern, J |
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Format: | Journal article |
Sprog: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2021
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