Aging Bones: A Short History of Osteoporosis

by Gerald N. Grob

Book Overview

How osteoporosis went from a normal aging process to a disease.

In the middle of the twentieth century, few physicians could have predicted that the modern diagnostic category of osteoporosis would emerge to include millions of Americans, predominantly older women. Before World War II, popular attitudes held that the declining physical and mental health of older persons was neither preventable nor reversible and that older people had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421413183
• ISBN13: 9781421413181
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.7"