Why Survive?: Being Old in America

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 - Medical - 512 pages
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"Butler questions the value of long life for its own sake; modern medicine, he says, has ironically created 'a huge group of people for whom survival is possible but satisfaction in living elusive.' He proposes sweeping policy reforms to redefine and restructure the institutions responsible for what he calls 'the tragedy of old age in America.'" -New York Times Book Review

"Crammed with facts that explode old myths." -Boston Globe

"Heavily documented, highly readable . . . jammed with recommendations for constructive change in every area." -Science

"I commend it for clarity and lucidity, unpretentiousness and comprehensiveness . . . I think it is a classic." -Karl Menninger M.D.

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This was probably an excellent book in 1976, but it's extremely dated. Fun to see how some of his predictions have come true or not, though! Read full review

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About the author (2003)

Robert N. Butler, M.D., is president and chief executive officer of the International Longevity Center-USA and professor of geriatrics at the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. From 1975 to 1982 he was the founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. In 1982 he founded the first department of geriatrics in a U.S. medical school. In 1976 Butler won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Why Survive?: Being Old in America. He is co-author (with Dr. Myrna I. Lewis) of the books Aging and Mental Health and Love and Sex After 60. He is presently working on a book, The Longevity Revolution.

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TitleWhy Survive?: Being Old in America
AuthorRobert N. Butler
Editionreprint
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press, 2003
ISBN0801874254, 9780801874253
Length512 pages
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Medical / Geriatrics
Social Science / Gerontology
  
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