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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer Pub. Co
c2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798364906719 |
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.
