Dr. Robert Butler's Legacy in Defining and Fighting Ageism.
Robert N. Butler, MD (1927–2010), coined the term "ageism" in 1969 to define an age-driven bigotry that disengaged older persons from virtually all sectors of American life. As founding director of the National Institute of Aging, as head of the first geriatrics department in a US medical school, an...
| Publicado en: | University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 90; no. 2; pp. 80 - 96 |
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