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Volume 17 - July 1997

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Mike Featherstone and Andrew Wernick (eds), Images of Ageing: Cultural Representations of Later Life, Routledge, London and New York, 1995, 299 pp., hbk £45.00, ISBN 0 415 11258 3, pbk £13.99, ISBN 0 415 11259 1.

Briitta Koskiaho, Paula Mäkinen and Maija-Liisa Pättiniemi (eds), Women, the Elderly and Social Policy in Finland and Japan, Avebury, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1995, 199 pp., £32.50, ISBN 1 856 28859 5.

Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts, Over the Next Hill: An Ethnography of RVing Seniors in North America, Broadview, Peterborough, Ontario, 1996, 276 pp., Can$17.95 or US$15.95, ISBN 1 551 11116 0.

Michael J. Leitner and Sara F. Leitner, Leisure in Later Life, second edition, Haworth, New York, 1995, 448 pp., hbk $49.95, ISBN 1 560 24965, pbk $24.95, ISBN 1 560 24966 8.

Philip Seed, Is Day Care Still at the Crossroads? Jessica Kingsley, London, 1996, 126 pp., £14.95, ISBN 1 853 02373 6.

Ann V. Salvage, Who Will Care ? Future Prospects for Family Care in the European Union, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, 1995, 76 pp., ECU 8.50, ISBN 9 282 75360 3.

Laura L. Carstensen, Barry A. Edelstein, and Laurie Dornbrand (eds), The Practical Handbook of Clinical Gerontology. Sage, Thousand Oaks, California, 1996, 539 pp., £49.95, ISBN 0 803 95237 6.

Carol Ann Strauss, Grandparents: An Annotated Bibliography on Roles, Rights and Relationships, Scarecrow, Lanham, Maryland, 1996, 496 pp., £79.80, ISBN 0 810 83135 X.

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Stephen Katz, Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia and London, 1996, 165 pp., hbk £40.00, ISBN 0 813 91661 5, pbk £16.50, ISBN 0 813 91662 3.

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Suse Braum, Günter Knoll, Burkhard Krauss and Gabriel Uhlmann, Gerontopsychiatrie und Altenarbeit III, Beiträge zur Gerontologie und Altenarbeit 94, Deutsches Zentrum dür Altersfragen, Berlin, 1995, 272 pp., DM 7.00, ISBN 3 889 62132 5.

Martin J. Connolly (ed.), Respiratory Disease in the Elderly Patient, Chapman & Hall, London, 1996, 309 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 412 56830 6.

Joel T. Rosenthal, Old Age in Late Medieval England, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1996, 260 pp., £37.95, ISBN 0 812 23355 7.

Sheying Chen, Social Policy of the Economic State and Community Care in Chinese Culture, Avebury, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1996, 335 pp., £39.95, ISBN 1 859 72086 2.

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James G. Snell, The Citizen's Wage: The State and The Elderly in Canada, 1900–1951, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1996, 286 pp. hbk, Can. $60.00, ISBN 0 802 00737 6, pbk Can. $18.95, ISBN 0 802 07792 7.

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Josep M. Fericgla, Envejecer: Una Antropología de la Ancianidad, Antropos, Barcelona, 1992, 380 pp., no price, ISBN 8 476 58362 1.

James E. Birren and K. Warner Schaie (eds), Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Academic, San Diego, California, 4th edn, 1996, 416 pp., hbk no price, ISBN 0 121 01260 3, pbk £12.99, ISBN 121 01261 1.

Isobel Allen and Elizabeth Perkins (eds), The Future of Family Care for Older People, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1995, 234 pp., £17.50, ISBN 0 113 21595 9.

Addendum

Books Received, January–March 1997

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Leslie A. Morgan, J. Kevin Eckert and Stephanie M. Lyon. Small Board-and-Care Homes: Residential Care in Transition, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1995, 237 pp., $47.50, ISBN 0 801 84996 9.

Edward L. Schneider and John W. Rowe (eds), Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Academic Press, San Diego, California, 4th edn, 1996, 507 pp., pbk no price, ISBN 0 126 27873 3.

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