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Enduring questions in gerontology / edited by Debra J. Sheets, Dana Burr Bradley, Jon Hendricks.
Levy Dental Medicine Library - Stacks HQ1061 .E543 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gerontology.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., [2006]
- Summary:
- 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 the emerging issues and creating a context for further progress in the field of aging.
- The most creative thinkers contributing to the gerontological literature reflect on their disciplines, consider how key questions have emerged, review how they have changed in the decades since gerontology entered the fray, and propose what may lie ahead. The resulting collection of essays offers a comprehensive perspective on the enduring questions in gerontology and how they have shaped our understanding of differences in the experience of old age.
- As an emerging or seasoned scholar, you will find insight into the ways in which each disciplinary focus grapples with societal transitions, identifies emerging issues, and lays out strategies and salient perspectives for what should come next.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Finding New Beacons: Searching for Timeless and Interdisciplinary Perspectives / George L. Maddox 1
- Four Useful Generalizations 2
- Exploring the Significance of Changing Perspectives and Enduring Questions 8
- Epochs, Systems, and Scientific Revolutions 9
- Multidisciplinarity 10
- 1 Identifying Enduring Questions in Gerontology / Jon Hendricks, Debra Sheets, Dana Burr Bradley 13
- Identifying Knowledge and Making Sense 13
- Gerontology: Enduring Questions 15
- Searching for Answers Inside and Out 17
- Beyond the Mind of Neanderthals 20
- Developing Critical Awareness 21
- Public Policy: Questions or Answers 24
- The World at the Doorstep 25
- What Does It All Mean? 26
- 2 A Biologist's Perspective: Whence Come We, Where Are We, Whither Go We? / Steven N. Austad 29
- The Future: Ganymede or Tithonus? 34
- What Animal Research Tells Us 37
- The Ames Dwarf Gene 46
- Public Concerns about Life Extension Research 50
- How the Scientific Community Can Best Make Its Case 55
- 3 New Avenues, New Questions, and Changing Perspectives in Geriatric Medicine / Kenneth Brummel-Smith 63
- The Baby-Boom Generation and the Changing Doctor-Patient Relationship 63
- Training Physicians in Geriatric Medicine 68
- The Practice of Geriatrics 70
- Role of Other Providers 72
- Chronic Disease Care 74
- The Role of the Health Care System in Geriatrics 78
- Ethical Issues 80
- Controlling Health Care Costs 86
- 4 The Analytic Template in the Psychology of Aging / Manfred Diehl, Alissa Dark-Freudeman 93
- The Potentials and Limitations of Psychological Aging 93
- The Sample Case of Cognitive Aging: Enduring Questions 95
- The Development of Adult Intelligence 99
- Findings from Cognitive Training Research 102
- From the Laboratory to the Real World: Everyday Cognition 104
- The Sample Case of Personality Aging 106
- The Sample Case of Socioemotional Aging 114
- Conclusion and General Outlook 120
- 5 The Dynamic Nature of Societal Aging in a Global Perspective / Chris Phillipson 131
- Sociological Perspectives on Aging 132
- Social Gerontology in Context 135
- REconstructing the Life Course 139
- The New Sociology of Family Life 141
- Social Inequality and Social Divisions in Later Life: Current and Future Trends 144
- Globalization and the Sociology of Aging 147
- 6 Whatever Happened to Culture? / Christine L. Fry 159
- The Nature of Cultural Things 159
- The Nature of Culture and Ethnography 160
- An Ethnography of Age: Age among the Nacirema 161
- Have We Lost Culture in Our Explorations of Age? 165
- Rediscovering Culture and Age 167
- Enduring Questions from Anthropology 170
- 7 The Contributions of Philosophy and Ethics in the Study of AGe / Martha Holstein, Mark Waymack 177
- Facing Enduring Questions 179
- Making Qualitative Distinctions 180
- The Liminality of Old Age 181
- Ages and Stages 183
- "Quasi"-Normative Ideas about Aging: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern 187
- Old Age Becomes a Problem 189
- Contemporary Gerontological Ideals: Implicit and Explicit 190
- 8 Historical Gerontology: It Is a Matter of Time / W. Andrew Achenbaum 203
- The Origins of Historical Gerontology 207
- Enduring Issues and Broader Perspectives in Historical Gerontology: An Agenda 217
- The Challenge 219
- 9 The Purview and Sweep of Aging Policy / Phoebe S. Liebig 225
- The Policy Sciences: Theory and Practice 226
- Public Administration and Law 229
- Enduring Questions in Aging Policy 231
- The Next Generation of Enduring Questions 254
- Epilogue. Gerontology-Past, Present, and Future / James E. Birren 271
- The Past 272
- Gerontology in the Present 277
- The Future of Gerontology 279
- A Summary Perspective on Gerontology 284.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826164153
- OCLC:
- 61454165
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