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dc.citation.endPage 86 -
dc.citation.number 1 -
dc.citation.startPage 49 -
dc.citation.title JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES -
dc.citation.volume 68 -
dc.contributor.author Park, Hyung Wook -
dc.date.accessioned 2023-12-22T04:17:19Z -
dc.date.available 2023-12-22T04:17:19Z -
dc.date.created 2013-06-10 -
dc.date.issued 2013-01 -
dc.description.abstract The intramural gerontological research program in the National Institutes of Health underwent a substantial growth after its creation within the precincts of the Baltimore City Hospitals in 1940. This paper analyzes its development and the associated problems of its early years. Gerontologists aimed at improving the social and economic life of the elderly through scientific research. With this aim in mind, they conducted various investigations using the indigent aged patients of the Baltimore City Hospitals. Yet the scientists of aging, who hoped to eliminate negative social factors that might bias their research and heighten the confusion between pathology and aging per se, eventually stopped using these patients in the hospital as human subjects. Instead they sought educated affluent subjects in order to eliminate the impact of poverty. By doing so, however, they introduced a new source of social bias to their work, especially within the novel project begun in 1958, the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. This article thus examines the context of the development of gerontologists' research by analyzing their agenda, institutional environment, and research subjects in the 19405 and the 1950s. -
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES, v.68, no.1, pp.49 - 86 -
dc.identifier.doi 10.1093/jhmas/jrr048 -
dc.identifier.issn 0022-5045 -
dc.identifier.scopusid 2-s2.0-84877354022 -
dc.identifier.uri https://scholarworks.unist.ac.kr/handle/201301/2962 -
dc.identifier.url http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84877354022 -
dc.identifier.wosid 000312622800002 -
dc.language 영어 -
dc.publisher OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC -
dc.title Biological Aging and Social Characteristics: Gerontology, the Baltimore City Hospitals, and the National Institutes of Health -
dc.type Article -
dc.relation.journalWebOfScienceCategory Health Care Sciences & Services; History & Philosophy Of Science -
dc.relation.journalResearchArea Health Care Sciences & Services; History & Philosophy of Science -
dc.description.journalRegisteredClass scie -
dc.description.journalRegisteredClass ssci -
dc.description.journalRegisteredClass ahci -
dc.description.journalRegisteredClass scopus -
dc.subject.keywordAuthor Gerontologists -
dc.subject.keywordAuthor the elderly -
dc.subject.keywordAuthor social bias -
dc.subject.keywordAuthor National Institutes of Health -
dc.subject.keywordAuthor Baltimore City Hospitals -
dc.subject.keywordAuthor Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging -

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