Grant, Susan
(ed.)
Scarborough, Isaac McKean
(ed.)
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Número de páginas: 272 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 09-02-2023
EAN: 9781350273795
ISBN: 978-1-350-27379-5
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
Ageing was hardly a uniquely Soviet phenomenon: over the past fifty years, moreover, governments and societies have been dealing with steady increases in their ageing populations. Almost paradoxically, however, societal focus on this ageing population, its lives, and its social impact remains extremely limited. Compared to most sciences, gerontology is pitifully underfunded; geriatrics is amongst the least prestigious branches of medicine; and while the world's population is growing undeniably older, great disagreement remains over what can and should be done in response. These were the same challenges that the USSR faced in the post-war decades (1945-1991), and the contributions included in this volume help to flesh out and contextualize the example of Soviet gerontology and geriatrics as one possible model of response.