IN PRAISE OF "Elusive as time and temporality may be, an understanding of their dynamic is implicit in how one approaches the study of aging processes. There is more to time than what shows on the clock or on the calendar, and the authors assembled here provide a masterful peek into its various meanings and how those meanings color what we think we know about aging. Their explorations range from the physical and biological to psychological processes and experiential dimensions. They cover the terrain and stake out the issues in a cogent and provocative manner. Readers will quickly appreciate the richness of the perspectives provided here, and the scholarship that is readily apparent." ?Jon Hendricks, Dean, University Honors College, Oregon State University "Aging and Time brings in a new phase in the research and study of aging. It opens windows through which we can view the complexity and importance of the various processes of aging. The book echoes the idea that age doesn't cause anything. Time and age are convenient indexes that help in organizing both research data and personal information. Rational explanations require the replacement of age with causal variables that determine the outcomes of phenomena that are initially linked to chronological age. The excellent scholarship in this book will lead to new views of the complexity of aging and its understanding." ?Jim Birren, Associate Director, Center on Aging, University of California, Los Angeles, Emeritus Professor and Dean, School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles "This important volume challenges gerontologists' self-understanding as "experts" by revealing false assumptions and neglected complexities in the study of aging and time. Ranging from the humanities to the social and natural sciences, the primarily European authors of Aging and Time go to the heart of epistemological and methodological issues that American gerontologists neglect at our own peril. This is essential reading for serious students of foundational questions in gerontology." ?Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D., Director, McGovern Center for Health, Humanities and the Human Spirit University of Texas-Houston School of Medicine "Aging and Time is a must-read book for serious researchers in gerontology. It addresses the most basic problem underlying all our research endeavors: what is time, and how is time related to aging? Seven world-class scholars representing fields ranging from physics to philosophy have contributed to this volume, and their effort to address the multidisciplinary nature of gerontology is impressive. Baars and Visser and their colleagues ask the questions we may wish to ignore, but cannot. Why have we concentrated on calendar age as an index of aging when other dimensions of time?such as personal experiences and narrative articulations of aging?may be far more predictive and useful?" ?Vern Bengtson, AARP/University Professor of Gerontology, Professor of Sociology, Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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