Enduring questions in gerontology
Enduring questions in gerontology [electronic resource] /
edited by Debra J. Sheets, Dana Burr Bradley, Jon Hendricks.
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2006.
- xvi, 296 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
DNLM
Gerontology.
Electronic books.
HQ1061 / .E543 2006eb
305.26
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
DNLM
Gerontology.
Electronic books.
HQ1061 / .E543 2006eb
305.26