Growing Old in Silence

Informationen zum Autor Gay Becker is Professor in Residence! Medical Anthropology and Social and Behavioral Sciences! UCSF. Zusammenfassung A study of the aged deaf which describes a vital subculture of disabled persons. It takes us into a community distinguished by a disability that, from an outsider's view is full of liabilities. Instead, we find assets and strengths enabling people who were born deaf or who lost their hearing in early childhood to cope with their advancing age.

Product details

• Authors: Gay Becker, Gaylene Becker, Becker Gay
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.1983
• EAN: 9780520050587
• ISBN: 978-0-520-05058-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, Age groups: the elderly