Senescence, growth, and gerontology in the United States
This paper discusses how growth and aging became interrelated phenomena with the creation of gerontology in the United States. I first show that the relation of growth to senescence, which had hardly attracted scientific attention before the twentieth century, started to be investigated by several e...
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Main Author: | Park, Hyung Wook |
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Other Authors: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2013
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96443 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10273 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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