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Aging Bones: A Short History of Osteoporosis
Gerald N. Grob
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Description for Aging Bones: A Short History of Osteoporosis
Paperback. The fascinating history in Aging Bones will appeal to students and scholars in the history of medicine, health policy, gerontology, endocrinology, and orthopedics, as well as anyone who has been diagnosed with osteoporosis. Series: Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MJE; VFDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
In the middle of the twentieth century, few physicians could have predicted that the modern diagnostic category of osteoporosis would emerge to include millions of Americans, predominantly older women. Before World War II, popular attitudes held that the declining physical and mental health of older persons was neither preventable nor reversible and that older people had little to contribute. Moreover, the physiological processes that influenced the health of bones remained mysterious. In Aging Bones, Gerald N. Grob makes a historical inquiry into how this one aspect of aging came to be considered a disease. During the 1950s and 1960s, as ... Read more
In the middle of the twentieth century, few physicians could have predicted that the modern diagnostic category of osteoporosis would emerge to include millions of Americans, predominantly older women. Before World War II, popular attitudes held that the declining physical and mental health of older persons was neither preventable nor reversible and that older people had little to contribute. Moreover, the physiological processes that influenced the health of bones remained mysterious. In Aging Bones, Gerald N. Grob makes a historical inquiry into how this one aspect of aging came to be considered a disease. During the 1950s and 1960s, as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421413181
SKU
V9781421413181
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About Gerald N. Grob
Gerald N. Grob is the Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus at Rutgers University and a senior research associate in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is the author of eleven books, including The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America.
Reviews for Aging Bones: A Short History of Osteoporosis
A well-written and compelling book that should convince academic, student, lay and professional audiences alike that immersion in the history of a disease is indispensable to treating it. Social History of Medicine [ Aging Bones] illustrate[s] the disparate yet powerful components of chronic disease for understanding medical practices and policies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Journal of the History ... Read more