Aging bones : [electronic resource] : A short history of Osteoporosis. Gerald N Grob.
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 more and more people lived to the age of 65, older people emerged as a self-conscious group with distinct interests, and they rejected the pejorative concept of senescence. But they had pressing health needs, and preventing age-related decline became a focus for researchers and clinicians alike. In analyzing how the normal...
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Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2307 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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