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Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volume 9. Issue 2. June 1995

Contents:

Article

1. Introduction: Anthropology, Aging, and Health
   
   1. MARGO-LEA HURWICZ
2. Struggling over Subjectivity: Debates about the "Self" and Alzheimer's Disease
   
   1. ELIZABETH HERSKOVITS
3. Managing an Uncertain Illness Trajectory in Old Age: Patients' and Physicians' Views of Stroke
   
   1. GAY BECKER
      SHARON R. KAUFMAN
4. Stigmatizing a "Normal" Condition: Urinary Incontinence in Late Life
   
   1. LINDA S. MITTENESS
      JUDITH C. BARKER
5. Physicians' Norms and Health Care Decisions of Elderly Medicare Recipients
   
   1. MARGO-LEA HURWICZ
6. Decision Making in the Treatment of Acute Illness in Nursing Homes: Framing the Decision Problem, Treatment Plan, and Outcome
   
   1. JEANIE KAYSER-JONES
7. Narratives of Elder Parental Death: A Structural and Cultural Analysis
   
   1. ROBERT L. RUBINSTEIN

Commentaries

1. Questioning the Allure of Aging and Health for Medical Anthropology
   
   1. MARK R. LUBORSKY
2. Aging, Health, and Culture: The Contribution of Medical Anthropology
   
   1. MARCIA G. ORY

Book Review

1. Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America. Margaret Lock
   
   1. M. MARGARET CLARK

Erratum

1. Erratum