Editorial: Our New Book Reviews Section

Introducing our new Editorial Board.

Reviewing our book reviews: fifty years and counting.

The editorial team of The Gerontologist has been committed to providing its readers with up-to-date information about recently published books focused on gerontological science and practice since the inception of the journal in 1961. The initial issue of the journal included a list of recently published books. The first formal book review (of You Can't Count on Dying, by Natalie Harris Cabot) w...

Book reviews Genetics, the Fetus and our Future

Overall, I think this book is worth reading. It includes plenty of relevant facts, interesting quotations and conflicting arguments the latter being an essential component. The more factual aspects of the remit are well organised and chapter one and the second half of chapters four and five are clearly laid out. I recognise that philosophical and speculative issues are by their very nature less...

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Introducing the new Book Reviews Editor

This will be my final issue serving as book reviews editor for Medical History, though I look forward to a continuing role on its editorial board. Beginning in 2013, book reviews for the journal will be edited by Professor Akihito Suzuki, of Keio University, and a new section on new media reviews will be edited by Professors Stephen Casper and Mariola Espinosa, of Clarkson University and Yale U...