Senescence, growth, and gerontology in the United States

• Main Author: Park, Hyung Wook
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96443; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10273
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...