Enduring questions in gerontology

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Sheets, Debra J. (Editor), Bradley, Dana Burr (Editor), Hendricks, Jon, 1943- (Editor)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published New York : Springer Publishing Company, c2006
Subjects
gerontologie
stárnutí
geriatrie
gerontopsychologie
gerontology
aging
geriatrics
gerontopsychology
eseje
essays
Online AccessObsah
ISBN0826164153
Physical Descriptionxvi, 296 s. : il. ; 24 cm

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Table of 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.

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