- Заглавие:
Crossing frontiers
- Автор:
Achenbaum W. A.
- Место издания:
New York
- Издатель:
Cambridge University Press
- Дата издания:
1995
- Объём:
XIII, 278 p.
- ISBN:
9780521481946
- Сведения о содержании:
Introduction; Two Precursors; Keywords; OLD AGE BECOMES A 'PROBLEM' WORTH INVESTIGATING SCIENTIFICALLY; 1. Surveying the Frontiers of Aging; 2. Setting Boundaries for Disciplined Discoveries; 3. Establishing Outposts for Multidisciplinary Research on Aging; GERONTOLOGY TAKES SHAPE IN THE ERA OF BIG SCIENCE; 4. Organizing the Gerontological Society to Promote Interdisciplinary Research Amid Disciplinary and Professional Constriction; 5. Risk-taking in the Modern Research University - 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; Conclusion; The Current State of the Field; Reconstructing Gerontology
- Язык текста:
Английский
Библиографический источник
Crossing frontiers
gerontology emerges as a science / W. A. Achenbaum