Aging:
Concepts and Controversies
"The world’s
most unique and dynamic textbook on aging" |
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Aging:
Concepts and Controversies
Editor: Harry R. Moody
Publisher: Sage
Publications Inc; 1998; 500 pages
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Welcome to the world’s most unique and dynamic textbook
on aging. Aging: Concepts and Controversies
is widely praised and adopted, Harry "Rick" Moody
has again presented the key concepts and controversies in
an engaging and accessible fashion, supported with carefully
chosen adapted readings, resulting in the most captivating
introduction to gerontology available today.
New to
this edition of Aging: Concepts and Controversies:
* Major revision
with the biology of aging and social security receiving special
attention
* Updated and augmented figures and graphics using data from
the Year 2000 U. S. Census.
* 11 new readings
* A web-based on-line appendix for even more up-to-date information
to explore topics in depth.
From
the opening chapter of Aging: Concepts and Controversies,
the author encourages students to see aging not as a fixed
period of life but as a process beginning at birth and extending
over the entire life course. The pedagogical design of this
book focuses on controversies and questions rather than on
assimilating facts or coming up with a single "correct"
view about aging or older people. The readings are selected
to highlight ongoing debates in the field and to stimulate
students to think more deeply about what is at stake in the
issues presented.
Comments
about Aging: Concepts and Controversies:
"I love
the book. It allows students to apply knowledge from earlier
courses. It combines theory and practice. It presents both
sides of important issues. It is an excellent tool for critical
thinking and discussion."—Rick Briggs, West
Virginia University
"I
will indeed adopt this text again. I’m very pleased
that Moody has offered a text that is critical in its sensibility
but accessible in tone – it provides a great entrée
for students into the filed of aging studies and into the
critical Gerontological imagination."— Jennifer
Sasser-Coen, Ph.D., Marylhurst University
"This
text is a great introduction to the field of aging as students
like to ‘open-up’ in the topics, instead of just
passively listening and reading."— Scott D.
Wright, University of Utah
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