Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 268 pages) |
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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Butler, Robert N., 1927-2010.
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SUBJECT |
Butler, Robert N., 1927-2010 fast |
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Gerontologists -- United States -- Biography
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Gerontology -- United States
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
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Gerontologists
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Gerontology
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0231535325 |
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9780231535328 |
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