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Enduring questions in gerontology /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sheets, Debra J., Bradley, Dana Burr, Hendricks, Jon, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.