Profiles in Gerontology: A Biographical Dictionary

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Following an introduction that outlines the history and projects the future of gerontology, the authors offer insightful profiles of roughly 300 researchers, teachers, and practitioners in ageing. North Americans are heavily represented, though gerontologists from Great Britain and the Continent are included as well. The dictionary can be read for an overview of the field, while cross-listings and a complete name and subject index make it a useful reference. Each entry contains a professional and academic biography, along with citations and succinct descriptions of the individual's important contributions to the study of the elderly and ageing. LC 95-8002. ._GR9274

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The book is extremely useful as a biographical source, and the name and subject indexes allow for more general reference on the subject. ... the work under review is strongly recommened for all medical libraries and for larger university and public library collections.-ARBA
This important and welcome biographical dictionary identifies and describes some 300 influential gerontologists, past and present. Biographies include all GSA presidents, editors, outstanding researchers, and those exemplifying the highest standards of professional leadership in gerontology through teaching, service, and the interpretation of gerontology. Upper-division through faculty.-Choice
"The book is extremely useful as a biographical source, and the name and subject indexes allow for more general reference on the subject. ... the work under review is strongly recommened for all medical libraries and for larger university and public library collections."-ARBA
"This important and welcome biographical dictionary identifies and describes some 300 influential gerontologists, past and present. Biographies include all GSA presidents, editors, outstanding researchers, and those exemplifying the highest standards of professional leadership in gerontology through teaching, service, and the interpretation of gerontology. Upper-division through faculty."-Choice

Author Bio

W. ANDREW ACHENBAUM is Professor of History at the University of Michigan and deputy director of its Institute of Gerontology. He is the author or coauthor of several books including Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science (forthcoming) and Gerontological Keywords (forthcoming). DANIEL M. ALBERT is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Michigan.