Robert N. Butler, MD : visionary of healthy aging /

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Robert Neil Butler (1927?2010) was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging. One of the first psychiatrists to engage with older men and women outside of institutional settings, Butler coined the term?ageism" to draw atte...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Achenbaum, W. Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Butler, Robert N., > 1927-2010.
Butler, Robert N., > 1927-2010
Gerontologists > United States > Biography.
Gerontology > United States.
Gérontologues > États-Unis > Biographies.
Gérontologie > États-Unis.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
Gerontologists
Gerontology
United States
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Robert Neil Butler (1927?2010) was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging. One of the first psychiatrists to engage with older men and women outside of institutional settings, Butler coined the term?ageism" to draw attention to discrimination against older adults and spent a lifetime working to improve their status, medical treatment, and care. Early in his career, Butler seized on the positive features of late-life development?aspects he documented in his pathbreaking research on?healthy aging" at the Na.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 268 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0231535325
9780231535328

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