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Why Survive? : Being Old in America

by Robert N. Butler

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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... Read more
"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 Less

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File size8.42x5.54x1.29inches
Print pages512
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
Publication date February 1, 2003
ISBN9780801874253
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