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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Achenbaum, W. Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Life review
  • The formative years
  • A professional apprentice
  • Forging Washington connections
  • Butler at the National Institute of Aging
  • Expanding the scope of geriatrics
  • Recasting the new gerontology through the international longevity center
  • America's aging visionary.

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