Healthy Aging

ILC-USA Salutes Gerald J. Gruman

The ILC-USA mourns the passing of friend and colleague, Gerald J. Gruman, M.D., Ph.D., on September 15, 2007, and salutes his productive, successful life.

Dr. Gruman was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1926. He attended Columbia University and Cornell University. His medical training was done at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gruman served two years as a medical officer in the U.S. Public Health Service, and then enrolled as a History of Science student at Harvard University. He taught history at Johns Hopkins University and University of Massachusetts.

Dr. Gruman wrote "A History of Ideas About the Prolongation of Life" in 1966 as a monograph in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, the oldest scholarly journal in America. In 2003, we reissued the book as part of our Classics in Longevity and Aging Series.

Dr. Gruman also edited a number of books in the Arno aging and death series and contributed to such works as Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and Aging and the Elderly. He has been a recipient of a J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and a Special Research Fellowship of the N.I.M.H.

A complete obituary can be found in The Ipswich Chronicle.

Related Links: A History of Ideas about the Prolongation of Life

Keywords: healthy aging

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