Perspectives on aging : exploding the myths : a lecture series funded by the Colonial Penn Insurance Group / Priscilla W. Johnston, coordinating editor
Lectures presented at Duke University, the University of Michigan, the University of Southern California, and the University of Washington during 1980.
Contents:
Foreword / John J. MacWilliams -- Aging in the eighties : introduction / George L. Maddox -- National health insurance and an aging society / Theodore R. Marmor -- Prospects for increasing human longevity / Leonard Hayflick -- Age and the law / George J. Alexander -- Old wives' tales / Anne Firor Scott -- Creativity and aging : introduction / Harold R. Johnson and Beth Spencer -- The continuum of creativity / John A.B. McLeish -- A literary perspective / May Sarton -- Some thoughts from a folk cultural perspective / Alan Jabbour -- A performer's perspective / James A. Standifer -- A tribute to longevity : introduction / James E. Birren -- A genetic and evolutionary perspective on aging and longevity / George M. Martin
Nutritional intervention in the aging process / Edward J. Masoro -- Moral issues in the new quest for longevity / John B. Orr -- World perspectives on aging : introduction / Alice J. Kethley -- A philosophy of aging from a world perspective / Michel Philibert -- Cultural influences on aging / Erdman Palmore -- Social policies and aging : a global perspective / Walter M. Beattie, Jr