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In his well-written descriptions of research and interpretations of its social roles, Park gives us an account of biosocial approaches to aging that provides something for many readers. Historians of life sciences and medicine will find that Park adds to the traditional histories of American (and British) science. He also provides new insights into historical studies of aging and the old. Park offers an original look at the New Science of Old Age from the first half of the twentieth century. --Journal of the History of Biology Through extensive archival research, Hyung Wook Park has unearthed a wealth of fascinating detail about the work of the pioneering life scientists who established gerontology as a multidisciplinary scientific field. His book will likely stand for some time as the definitive historical account of gerontology. --Jesse Ballenger, author of Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History This meticulously researched, well-written study of gerontology's developmental years in the United States and the United Kingdom is a detailed, masterful account of a topic whose origins will not have to be revisited for many years. --Choice Park's splendid accomplishment appears propitiously. Park extends to newcomers and veterans in gerontology illuminating lessons. Mining the past for precedents that might inform present thinking entails more than prefatory throat-clearing. Park shows a second generation of gero-historians how to offer possibilities for rediscovering patterns and mechanisms through concerted searches for a usable past. --The Gerontologist Through extensive archival research, Hyung Wook Park has unearthed a wealth of fascinating detail about the work of the pioneering life scientists who established gerontology as a multidisciplinary scientific field. His book will likely stand for some time as the definitive historical account of gerontology. Jesse Ballenger, author of Self, Senility, and Alzheimer s Disease in Modern America: A History This meticulously researched, well-written study of gerontology s developmental years in the United States and the United Kingdom is a detailed, masterful account of a topic whose origins will not have to be revisited for many years. Choice This book is a very welcome and timely addition to scholarship on the history of scientific approaches to aging. It contains innovative analysis of archival data that will be of interest not only to a variety of researchers in the history of science and medicine but also to critical gerontologists and scholars in science and technology studies. Tiago Moreira, Durham University

This book is a very welcome and timely addition to scholarship on the history of scientific approaches to aging. It contains innovative analysis of archival data that will be of interest not only to a variety of researchers in the history of science and medicine, but also to critical gerontologists and scholars in science and technology studies. Tiago Moreira, Durham University

Through extensive archival research, Hyung Wook Park has unearthed a wealth of fascinating detail about the work of the pioneering life scientists who established gerontology as a multidisciplinary scientific field. His book will likely stand for some time as the definitive historical account of gerontology. --Jesse Ballenger, author of Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History This meticulously researched, well-written study of gerontology's developmental years in the United States and the United Kingdom is a detailed, masterful account of a topic whose origins will not have to be revisited for many years. --Choice Park's splendid accomplishment appears propitiously. Park extends to newcomers and veterans in gerontology illuminating lessons. Mining the past for precedents that might inform present thinking entails more than prefatory throat-clearing. Park shows a second generation of gero-historians how to offer possibilities for rediscovering patterns and mechanisms through concerted searches for a usable past. --The Gerontologist In his well-written descriptions of research and interpretations of its social roles, Park gives us an account of biosocial approaches to aging that provides something for many readers. Historians of life sciences and medicine will find that Park adds to the traditional histories of American (and British) science. He also provides new insights into historical studies of aging and the old. Park offers an original look at the New Science of Old Age from the first half of the twentieth century. --Journal of the History of Biology

This book is a very welcome and timely addition to scholarship on the history of scientific approaches to aging. It contains innovative analysis of archival data that will be of interest not only to a variety of researchers in the history of science and medicine but also to critical gerontologists and scholars in science and technology studies. Tiago Moreira, Durham University

In his well-written descriptions of research and interpretations of its social roles, Park gives us an account of biosocial approaches to aging that provides something for many readers. Historians of life sciences and medicine will find that Park adds to the traditional histories of American (and British) science. He also provides new insights into historical studies of aging and the old. Park offers an original look at the New Science of Old Age from the first half of the twentieth century. --Journal of the History of Biology Through extensive archival research, Hyung Wook Park has unearthed a wealth of fascinating detail about the work of the pioneering life scientists who established gerontology as a multidisciplinary scientific field. His book will likely stand for some time as the definitive historical account of gerontology. --Jesse Ballenger, author of Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History This meticulously researched, well-written study of gerontology's developmental years in the United States and the United Kingdom is a detailed, masterful account of a topic whose origins will not have to be revisited for many years. --Choice Park's splendid accomplishment appears propitiously. Park extends to newcomers and veterans in gerontology illuminating lessons. Mining the past for precedents that might inform present thinking entails more than prefatory throat-clearing. Park shows a second generation of gero-historians how to offer possibilities for rediscovering patterns and mechanisms through concerted searches for a usable past. --The Gerontologist

Through extensive archival research, Hyung Wook Park has unearthed a wealth of fascinating detail about the work of the pioneering life scientists who established gerontology as a multidisciplinary scientific field. His book will likely stand for some time as the definitive historical account of gerontology. Jesse Ballenger, author of <i>Self, Senility, and Alzheimer s Disease in Modern America: A History</i>

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Hyung Wook Park is assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

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