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Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0521558808
ISBN-13:: 9780521558808
Pub. Date:: 08/25/1995
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press

ISBN-10:: 0521558808
ISBN-13:: 9780521558808
Pub. Date:: 08/25/1995
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press

Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science / Edition 1

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Gerontology did not emerge as a scientific field of inquiry in the United States until the twentieth century. By tracing intellectual networks and analyzing institutional patterns, Crossing Frontiers shows how old age became a "problem" worth investigating and how a multidisciplinary orientation took shape. Gerontology remains a marginal intellectual enterprise, but its very strengths and weaknesses illuminate the politics of specialization and academic turf-fighting in U.S. higher education.

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ISBN-13:	9780521558808
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/25/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

Introduction; Two Precursors; Keywords; OLD AGE BECOMES A 'PROBLEM' WORTH INVESTIGATING SCIENTIFICALLY; 1. Surveying the Frontiers of Aging; 2. Setting Boundaries for Disciplined Discoveries; 3. Establishing Outposts for Multidisciplinary Research on Aging; GERONTOLOGY TAKES SHAPE IN THE ERA OF BIG SCIENCE; 4. Organizing the Gerontological Society to Promote Interdisciplinary Research Amid Disciplinary and Professional Constriction; 5. Risk-taking in the Modern Research University – The Fate of Multidisciplinary Institutes on Aging; 6. The Federal Government as Sponsor, Producer, and Consumer of Research on Aging; 7. Gerontology in the Service of America's Aging Veterans; Conclusion; The Current State of the Field; Reconstructing Gerontology

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"...[a] perceptive, beautifully written and superbly organized history of American gerontology..." London Review of Books

"Heavily footnoted, well researched, and scholarly, this book is the first to trace the history of gerentology from its roots in 19th-century physiology to today's highly competitive research centers." Library Journal

"Crossing Frontiers is an excellent, thorough, and richly documented history of gerontology." American Journal of Sociology

"I recommend Crossing Frontiers as worthwhile reading for anyone interested in gerontology today....any physician interested in the broader issues of aging will benefit from reading this book." David H. Solomon, MD, JAMA

"Crossing Fronteirs...presents a cognent history of gerontology as a scientific field; it offers a prescription for the future..." Journal of American History

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Gerontology is an interdisciplinary background fight whose practitioners apply theories and methods from such disciplines as psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology to gain an understanding of human aging. The growth of the older population increased interest in the aging process and led to the creation of professional organizations and a body of specialized literature. But gerontology has a long way to go before it becomes a true scientific specialty, says Achenbaum (Univ. of Michigan's Institute of Gerontology). As yet there are no definitive theories of aging and few common research techniques to unite the discipline. Heavily footnoted, well researched, and scholarly, this book is the first to trace the history of gerontology from its roots in 19th-century physiology to today's highly competitive research centers. For academic collections specializing in gerontology or scientific history.Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland

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