Handbook of the Humanities and Aging

20th century Achenbaum ageism American ancestor worship artistic Barbara Myerhoff bioethics Birren Buddhism Cambridge Chinese Christian Cole Confucian contemporary continued creative critical cultural death decline Dostoyevsky early economic elderly elders essay ethics example experience fairy fairy tales father fiction geriatric gerontocracy gerontology Greek growing old Hinduism historians humanistic humanities images important individual institutions issues Jewish Journal Käthe Kollwitz Kollwitz late later literary literature lives meaning midlife Midrash Mishnah modern moral Myerhoff narrative nursing home old age older adults older persons perspective philosophical poems poetry political problems programs questions religion religious retirement role Roman scholars shoe box shtetl Simone de Beauvoir social society spiritual stage Stearns story symbolic Talmud texts theme theory tion Torah traditional transcendence University Press values virtue virtue ethics Vollendungsroman Warren Western wisdom women Woodward world history writing York young youth