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Author Achenbaum, W. Andrew.

Title Robert N. Butler, MD : visionary of healthy aging / W. Andrew Achenbaum
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]

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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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Subject Butler, Robert N., 1927-2010.
SUBJECT Butler, Robert N., 1927-2010 fast
Subject Gerontologists -- United States -- Biography
Gerontology -- United States
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
Gerontologists
Gerontology
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0231535325
9780231535328