Edited by Stephen G. Post and Peter J. Whitehouse. 284 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. $45. ISBN 0-8018-5840-2.
As a geriatrician, I find that my name is sometimes mistakenlyassociated with the field of genetics, at least on lists ofconferences or specialties. In the past, I gave no thought tothese mistakes of alphabetical juxtaposition and just correctedthe error, moving my name to the correct list. Moreover, itseemed that the two specialties could not be further apart,given that genetics deals mainly with diseases affecting childrenand geriatrics, obviously, with the opposite end of the agespectrum. But the truth is that because of the remarkable discoveriesmade over the past two decades in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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