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Crossing frontiers :

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0521481945

(Number (ISBN

0521558808

(Number (ISBN

9780521481946

(Number (ISBN

9780521558808

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b708969

Title Proper

Crossing frontiers :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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gerontology emerges as a science /

First Statement of Responsibility

W. Andrew Achenbaum.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY, USA :

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Cambridge University Press,

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1995.

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xiii, 278 pages ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Surveying the frontiers of aging -- 2. Setting boundaries for disciplined discoveries -- 3. Establishing outposts for multidisciplinary research on aging -- 4. Organizing the Gerontological Society to promote interdisciplinary research amid disciplinary and professional constrictions -- 5. Risk taking in the modern research university and 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.

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Although philosophers, physicians, and others have long pondered the meanings and experiences of growing older, gerontology did not emerge as a scientific field of inquiry in the United States until the twentieth century. The study of aging borrows from a variety of other disciplines, including medicine, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, but its own scientific basis is still developing. Crossing Frontiers is the first book-length study of the history of gerontology. By tracing intellectual networks and analyzing institutional patterns, W. Andrew Achenbaum explores how old age became a "problem" worth investigating and how a multidisciplinary orientation took shape. Gerontology is a marginal intellectual enterprise but its very strengths and weaknesses illuminate the politics of specialization and academic turf-fighting in U.S. higher education.

University of South Alabama

Gerontology-- United States-- History.

Geriatrics-- history.

Gerontologie

Gérontologie-- États-Unis.

Gerontologie.

Gerontology-- United States-- History.

Gerontology.

Geschichte

United States.

United States.

USA.

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Achenbaum, W. Andrew.

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20201207235123.0

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[Book]

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