Old age, new science : gerontologists and their biosocial visions, 1900-1960 /
"Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled--a phenomenon owed largely to innovations in medicine and public health. At the same time, the Great Depression was a major tipping point f...
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2016]
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