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Title Enduring questions in gerontology / edited by Debra J. Sheets, Dana Burr Bradley, Jon Hendricks
Published New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages) : illustrations
Contents Prologue: finding new beacons: searching for timeless and interdisciplinary perspectives / George L. Maddox -- Identifying enduring questions in gerontology / Jon Hendricks, Debra Sheets, and Dana Burr Bradley -- A biologist's perspective: whence come we, where are we, whither go we? / Steven N. Austad -- New avenues, new questions, and changing perspectives in geriatric medicine / Kenneth Brummel-Smith -- New avenues, new questions, and changing perspectives in geriatric medicine / Kenneth Brummel-Smith -- The analytic template in the psychology of aging / Manfred Diehl and Alissa Dark-Freudeman -- The dynamic nature of societal aging in a global perspective / Chris Phillipson -- Whatever happened to culture? / Christine L. Fry -- The contributions of philosophy and ethics in the study of age / Martha Holstein and Mark Waymack -- Historical gerontology: it is a matter of time / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- The purview and sweep of aging policy / Phoebe S. Liebig -- Epilogue: gerontology-past, present, and future / James E. Birren
Summary Enduring Questions in Gerontology provides a comprehensive perspective on the abiding issues in gerontology. Both current and future gerontologists will find this book useful in examining emerging dilemmas and creating a context for further progress in the field of aging. The most creative thinkers contributing to the gerontological literature reflect on their disciplines, consider how key questions have emerged, review how they have changed in the decades since gerontology entered the fray, and speculate what may lie ahead. The resulting collection of essays offers a comprehensive perspective
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Gerontology.
Aging.
Aging
Geriatrics
gerontology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Aging.
Aging
Gerontology
Gerontologie
Wissenschaftstheorie
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Author Sheets, Debra J.
Bradley, Dana Burr.
Hendricks, Jon, 1943-
LC no. 2005054063
ISBN 9780826164162
0826164161
1281818291
9781281818294
9786611818296
6611818294