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" Crossing frontiers : "
W. Andrew Achenbaum.
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BL
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954599
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b708969
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Achenbaum, W. Andrew.
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Crossing frontiers : : gerontology emerges as a science /\ W. Andrew Achenbaum.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 1995.
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xiii, 278 pages ;; 24 cm
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0521481945
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: 0521558808
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: 9780521481946
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: 9780521558808
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Surveying the frontiers of aging -- 2. Setting boundaries for disciplined discoveries -- 3. Establishing outposts for multidisciplinary research on aging -- 4. Organizing the Gerontological Society to promote interdisciplinary research amid disciplinary and professional constrictions -- 5. Risk taking in the modern research university and 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.
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Although philosophers, physicians, and others have long pondered the meanings and experiences of growing older, gerontology did not emerge as a scientific field of inquiry in the United States until the twentieth century. The study of aging borrows from a variety of other disciplines, including medicine, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, but its own scientific basis is still developing. Crossing Frontiers is the first book-length study of the history of gerontology. By tracing intellectual networks and analyzing institutional patterns, W. Andrew Achenbaum explores how old age became a "problem" worth investigating and how a multidisciplinary orientation took shape. Gerontology is 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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University of South Alabama
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Gerontology-- United States-- History.
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Gerontologie
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Gérontologie-- États-Unis.
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Gerontology-- United States-- History.
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Gerontology.
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Geschichte
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Geriatrics-- history.
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Gerontologie.
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United States.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.26
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HQ1064.U5A625 1995
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1996 A-561
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WT 11 AA1A17c 1995
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44.68bcl
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MS 2700rvk
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