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...

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Hlavní autor: Hordern, J
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Johns Hopkins University Press 2021