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Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 6thEdition, edited by Robert H. Binstock and Linda K. George. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2006, 514 pp., $75 (paper). A priest, a rabbi, and a gerontologist go into a bar … sorry, but I don't have a punch line for that setup. Gerontologists are just not very funny. Ours is a serious business, not given to levity. Aside from the occasional scholarly paper analyzing the structure and function of aging humor—or ageist humor, as it often is called (see Palmore, 2005)—we are not often found joking about our subject. We take aging as seriously as a heart attack (sorry, that just slipped out). In addition, the easy grace and casual manner of the front-runner, the perpetual winner, is not our métier; Tiger Woods is not our role model. We more often identify with the well-intentioned, dedicated also-ran who competes but rarely scores and almost never wins. In the academic community, we are considered good but not great. Gerontology is a good subject, but it doesn't excite the masses. It isn't flashy or stunningly beautiful. It does occasionally produce an important insight or socially useful bit of knowledge, but mostly we are content to play with our ideas, build our models, and teach the few students who take our classes.
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