No Target, No Practice

Abstract

Murphy and Longino’s depiction (1997, p.151) of applied gerontology as marginal, yet moving &dquo;comfortably between the worlds of scientific research and practice, understanding and appreciating both,&dquo; has great intellectual and aesthetic appeal. However, judging from my own experience, I feel that this movement may not always be as easy or as comfortable as the authors have us believe. How else can I explain my being stuck in a kind of existential