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
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-302).
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.
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionHQ1061 2011A48hOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780306818530
- 0306818531