Going, going, gone
Raymond Tallis, 4 April 1996
Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science
by Andrew Achenbaum.
Cambridge, 278 pp., £35, November 1995,0 521 48194 5 Show More
by Andrew Achenbaum.
Cambridge, 278 pp., £35, November 1995,
“... ageing from the broadest perspective’ – is a neonate among the sciences. Indeed, according to Andrew Achenbaum in his perceptive, beautifully written and superbly organised history of American gerontology, it has not yet fully emerged as a science. There are many reasons why ageing is attracting so much scientific and quasi-scientific attention. For ... ”