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Gerontology in the U.S.:
Paradigm Pioneers and
Institutional Leaders
Nathan Shock—PHS –40’s-80’s
• Organic chem @ Purdue
• Biochem & Psych @ Univ of Chicago
• Dir. Gerontology Research Center for over
30 yrs.
• PI for the Baltimore Longitudinal Study
started in 1958.
Shock’s 6 axioms for aging
research
• 1) Give me a testable hypothesis
• 2) Focus research on the aging process over the
entire life span
• 3)Questions/designs must be scientifically
rigorous.
• 4) Aging and disease are not synonomous.
• 5)Aging is a dynamic equilibrium
• 6) Good scientific data is timeless; don’t
overlook findings from other fields.
Hayflick & Morehead (61)
Interest from the Social &
Behavioral Sciences
• Cavan, Burgess, Havighurst—all
sociologists of the University of Chicago.
• Measured activities & attitudes of over 3K
people 60 years & older.
• Defined personal adjustment to aging as a
multifaceted phenomenon.
Normalizing Aging in A
Multidisciplinary Frame
• Duke University-designate by NIH in 1957
as one of 5 regional centers for the study
of aging
• USC—James Birren had worked under
Nathan Shock
• Leonard Davis School of Gerontology—
first to offer a degree in GERONTOLOGY