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By Nathan W. Shock. Price, $15. Pp. 525, with illustrations. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1957.

William B. Bean, M.D., Reviewer

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;103(3):507.

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The burgeoning interest in aging, reflecting perhaps the self-conscious attention to itself of an aging population, is illustrated in the fact that this supplement which Nathan Shock has prepared of the publications from the past six years, contains about as many entries as a similar bibliography of similar publications for the first half of the present century. The Forest Park Foundation of Peoria, Ill., has made possible the great volume of work which has led to the publication of this book. It will be greeted enthusiastically by anyone working in the field of gerontology and by anyone else who needs to look up a particular topic or aspect of the problem. The arrangement of the book facilitates ready reference and in addition there is an alphabetical list of authors. For all of us who are getting old, it may or may not be some comfort to know that there are . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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