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Umfang: 1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 0-511-66680-2

Inhalt: 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. Despite dozens of aging-related journals, and a notable increase in state, regional, national and international networks, there are no widely shared techniques or distinctive methods. Theories of aging remain partial and tentative. 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 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.

Anmerkung: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , 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. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-521-55880-8

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-521-48194-5

Sprache: Englisch

URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511666803

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 0-511-75274-1

Inhalt: Franklin Roosevelt envisioned social security to be the cornerstone 'for the kind of protection America wants' from the financial troubles people faced due to old age and family tragedies. By fulfilling its initial promise, social security has evolved into the nation's largest, costliest, and most successful domestic institution. But the optimistic assumptions that inspired its incremental expansion have dissipated in the face of demographic, political, economic, and cultural shifts in American society. Social Security: Visions and Revisions encourages lawmakers, academic experts, and general readers alike to think more broadly and boldly about social security and its relation to public assistance and other income-maintenance and health-care programs. Pulling together information and insights previously scattered and fragmentary, this 1986 book draws lessons from the past that free us of outdated assumptions and unexamined shibboleths. The re-vision of social security that Achenbaum advocates should become the basis of all discussions of government's responsibility to promote 'the general welfare' in our ageing society.

Anmerkung: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-521-35766-7

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-521-32866-7

Sprache: Englisch

URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511752742

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Umfang: XIII, 278 S. , Anm.; Personenreg.; Sachreg.; Abkürzungsverz.

ISBN: 0521481945 , 0521558808

Anmerkung: Includes index

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Soziologie

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Verlagsangaben

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Umfang: XVIII, 311 S , Ill , 24 cm

ISBN: 0202304590 , 0202304604

Serie: Social institutions and social change

Anmerkung: Literaturverz. S. 273 - 297

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Ethnologie , Soziologie

Schlagwort(e): Generationskonflikt ; Einstellung ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Umfang: XVI, 396 S.

ISBN: 0313292744

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Gerontologie ; Wissenschaftler ; Biografie ; Wörterbuch

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Umfang: XII, 237 S. , Ill.

ISBN: 080182107X , 080182107x , 0801823552

Anmerkung: Bearb. Diss

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Soziologie

Schlagwort(e): USA ; Alter ; Geschichte 〈1790-1970〉 ; Geschichte 1790-1970

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Umfang: xx, 202 p , Sachreg.; Personenreg.; Lit. , 24 cm

ISBN: 0801882370

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-193) and index , Introduction:A new demographic revolution demands novel structural responses --The new faces of individual aging --The new age of production and consumption --(Re)creating networks for lifelong learning and sharing talents --Reforming the U.S. health system to care for an aging population --Renewing religious experiences and spiritual practices for a new age --Extending the civic engagement of senior citizens --Epilogue.

Sprache: Englisch

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2005005203-b.html

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2005005203-d.html

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource

ISBN: 9781421435077

Inhalt: Drawing on a wide range of sources from social, intellectual, and political history, W. Andrew Achenbaum analyzes the changing fates and fortunes of America's elderly in the course of its history. By providing a historical perspective on society's conceptions of aging-and its effects on human lives-Achenbaum's work offers valuable insights for historians, sociologists, gerontologists, and others interested in the "graying" of America

Anmerkung: English

Sprache: Unbestimmte Sprache

URL: kostenfrei

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Umfang: XII, 266 S. , graph. Darst.

ISBN: 0826182003

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): USA ; Alter ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Umfang: 1 online resource(288 p.) : , illustrations.

Ausgabe: Electronic reproduction. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2013. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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ISBN: 9780231535328

Inhalt: Robert Neil Butler (1927-2010) was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging and the elderly. One of the first psychiatrists to engage with older men and women outside of institutional settings, Butler coined the term "ageism" to draw attention to discrimination against older adults and spent a lifetime working to improve their status, medical treatment, and care.Early in his career, Butler seized on the positive features of late-life development--aspects he documented in his pathbreaking research on "healthy aging" at the National Institutes of Health and in private practice. He set the nation's age-based health care agenda and research priorities as founding director of the National Institute on Aging and by creating the first interprofessional, interdisciplinary department of geriatrics at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital. In the final two decades of his career, Butler created a global alliance of scientists, educators, practitioners, politicians, journalists, and advocates through the International Longevity Center. A scholar who knew Butler personally and professionally, W. Andrew Achenbaum follows this pioneer's significant contributions to the concept of healthy aging and the notion that aging is not synonymous with physical and mental decline. Emphasizing the progressive aspects of Butler's approach and insight, Achenbaum affirms the ongoing relevance of his work to gerontology, geriatrics, medicine, social work, and related fields.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , One. Life Review -- , Two. The Formative Years -- , Three. A Professional Apprentice -- , Four. Forging Washington Connections -- , Five, Butler at the National Institute on Aging -- , Six Expanding the Scope of Geriatrics -- , Seven. Recasting the new Gerontology Through the International Longevity Center -- , Eight. America’S Aging Visionary -- , Epilogue -- , Appendix. Prologue or Introduction to Life Review -- , References -- , Index -- , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , One. Life Review -- , Two. The Formative Years -- , Three. A Professional Apprentice -- , Four. Forging Washington Connections -- , Five, Butler at the National Institute on Aging -- , Six Expanding the Scope of Geriatrics -- , Seven. Recasting the new Gerontology Through the International Longevity Center -- , Eight. America’S Aging Visionary -- , Epilogue -- , Appendix. Prologue or Introduction to Life Review -- , References -- , Index. , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books.

DOI: 10.7312/ache16442

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/ache16442

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