Why Survive?: Being Old in America
Book Details
Author(s)
Robert N. Butler
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0801874254
ISBN-13
9780801874253
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Sales Rank
#1,051,137
Category
Medical
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United States 🇺🇸
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Description
The author questions the value of long life for its own sake, arguing that modern medicine has ironically created a group for whom survival is possible but satisfaction elusive. He proposed reforms to redefine and restructure the institutions responsible for the elderly in America.
