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    <namePart>Bradley, Dana Burr.</namePart>
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    <namePart>Hendricks, Jon</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>c2006</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xvi, 296 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Prologue: finding new beacons: searching for timeless and interdisciplinary perspectives / George L. Maddox -- Identifying enduring questions in gerontology / Jon Hendricks, Debra Sheets, and Dana Burr Bradley -- A biologist's perspective: whence come we, where are we, whither go we? / Steven N. Austad -- New avenues, new questions, and changing perspectives in geriatric medicine / Kenneth Brummel-Smith -- New avenues, new questions, and changing perspectives in geriatric medicine / Kenneth Brummel-Smith -- The analytic template in the psychology of aging / Manfred Diehl and Alissa Dark-Freudeman -- The dynamic nature of societal aging in a global perspective / Chris Phillipson -- Whatever happened to culture? / Christine L. Fry -- The contributions of philosophy and ethics in the study of age / Martha Holstein and Mark Waymack -- Historical gerontology: it is a matter of time / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- The purview and sweep of aging policy / Phoebe S. Liebig -- Epilogue: gerontology-past, present, and future / James E. Birren.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Debra J. Sheets, Dana Burr Bradley, Jon Hendricks.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>Gerontology</topic>
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