Robert N. Butler, MD: Visionary of Healthy Aging
ISBN: 9780231535328
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
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Subjects: Butler Robert N. 1927–2010; Gerontologists -- United States -- Biography; Gerontology -- United States;

Robert Neil Butler was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging and the elderly. 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.


W. Andrew Achenbaum is professor of social work and history at the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Houston, where he holds the Gerson and Sabina David Professorship in Global Aging. He is also a fellow at the Institute for Spirituality and Health and the John P. McGovern M.D. Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit at the University of Texas Medical Center. His books include Social Security: Visions and Revisions ; Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science ; and Older Americans, Vital Communities: Toward a Bold Vision of Societal Aging .
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