Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science by W. Andrew Achenbaum

Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science

W. Andrew Achenbaum

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Gerontology did not emerge as a scientific field of inquiry in the United States until the twentieth century. By tracing intellectual networks and analyzing institutional patterns, Crossing Frontiers shows how old age became a "problem" worth inve...

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