Robert N. Butler, MD : : Visionary of Healthy Aging / / W. Andrew Achenbaum.

Robert Neil Butler (1927-2010) 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 "age...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • One. Life Review
  • Two. The Formative Years
  • Three. A Professional Apprentice
  • Four. Forging Washington Connections
  • Five, Butler at the National Institute on Aging
  • Six Expanding the Scope of Geriatrics
  • Seven. Recasting the new Gerontology Through the International Longevity Center
  • Eight. America'S Aging Visionary
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix. Prologue or Introduction to Life Review
  • References
  • Index