Endnotes: An Intimate Look at the End of Life

Ruth E. Ray

Paper, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14461-2
$24.50 / £17.00

June, 2008
Cloth, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14460-5
$74.50 / £51.50

Preface

1. Passionate Scholarship

2. Home

3. Making Ourselves Understood

4. New Year’s Eve

5. A Lamentable Situation

6. Those Little Ordinary Things

7. Passion’s Progress

8. Activities

9. Diaper Is a Dirty Word

10. Care Conference

11. Empty Rooms

12. Ethics of Care

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Related Subjects

• Gerontology

Series

• End of Life Care: A Series

About the Author

Ruth E. Ray teaches writing, composition theory, and women's studies at Wayne State University. She serves on the board of trustees of the Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization that operates a Center for Creative Aging, and she is co-founder of communityengagement@wayne.edu, which supports community-based research and teaching, including projects on creative aging and intergenerational learning. She is the author of Beyond Nostalgia: Aging and Life-Story Writing and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Aging Studies.

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