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Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science

Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science

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Aging & Elder CareSports General20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0521558808
ISBN13: 9780521558808
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Aug 25 1995
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
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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