Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science

by W. Andrew Achenbaum

Book Overview

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 investigating and how a multidisciplinary orientation took shape. Gerontology remains a marginal intellectual enterprise, but its very strengths and weaknesses illuminate the politics of specialization and academic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521481945
• ISBN13: 9780521481946
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"