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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David D Van Tassel; Peter N Stearns |
| ISBN: | 0313250006 9780313250002 |
| OCLC Number: | 12217209 |
| Description: | xx, 259 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : themes and prospects in old age history / Peter N. Stearns & David Van Tassel -- The new history of the aged : a critique / Brian Gratton -- Explaining old age history : the need for empiricism / Gerald N. Grob -- "Putting off the old" : middle-class morality, antebellum Protestantism, and the origins of ageism / Thomas R. Cole -- Geriatrics : a specialty in search of specialists / Carole Haber -- Accounting for change in the families of the elderly in the United States, 1900 - present / Daniel Scott Smith -- Life-course transitions and kin assistance in old age : a cohort comparison / Tamara Hareven -- The transformation of old age security / Jill S. Quadagno -- The elderly's Social Security entitlements as a measure of modern American life / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- Citizenship at the crossroads : the future of old age security / John Myles -- A comment : the Social Security crisis in perspective / William Graebner -- Two roads diverged : a rejoinder / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- The aged in a structured social context : medicine as a case study / Charles E. Rosenberg. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of aging, no. 4 |
| Responsibility: | edited by David Van Tassel and Peter N. Stearns. |
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