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 turf-fighting in U.S. higher education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521558808
• ISBN13: 9780521558808
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"