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| Interpreting the formative literature of gerontology and geriatrics: a view from American cultural history 1890-1930 | | Author(s) | Thomas R Cole, Martha Holstein |
| Journal title | IN: Toward a cultural history of aging; edited by Christoph Conrad, Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz, 1993 |
| Publisher | Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen, Berlin, 1993 |
| Pages | pp 135-156 |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Cultural activities ; Literature ; Histories ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Early work in gerontology and geriatrics - which was scientific in origin and problem-solving in its aim - may have contributed to the health and well-being of many older people, but tended to obscure cultural meaning. The authors examine the formative years of ageing research, 1890-1930. They argue that this formative literature - emerging from the positivist and empiricist thinking of the period - helped complete a long transition in the cultural construction of old age as a mystery, to one of old age being a problem. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990420210 A |
| Classmark | BG: H4: HK: 6A: 7T |
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