Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Why Survive?

Being Old in America

Why Survive?( )
Author: Butler, Robert Neil
ISBN:978-0-06-131997-6
Publication Date:Oct 1985
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.00
Book Details
Pages:510
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Gerontology
Book Weight:0.829 Pounds
Author Biography
Butler, Robert Neil (Author)
Robert Neil Butler was born on January 21, 1927. He graduated from Columbia University. He was a physician, gerontologist, and psychiatrist. He was a lead investigator of one of the first interdisciplinary, comprehensive, longitudinal studies of healthy community-residing older persons, which resulted in the book Human Aging. He founded the National Institute on Aging and the first department of geriatrics at a U.S. medical school. In 1976, he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for Why Survive?: Being Old in America. His other works include Aging and Mental Health: Positive Psychosocial and Biomedical Approaches, Life in an Older America, The New Love and Sex after 60 and The Longevity Revolution. He also wrote over 300 scientific and medical articles. He died of leukemia on July 4, 2010 at the age of 83.

030



Featured Books

Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
Hardback: $17.00
Meditations
Aurelius Marcus
Hardback: $72.00
The Velveteen Rabbit
Williams, Margery
Paperback: $9.95

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.