The term "ageism" was coined in 1969 by Robert N. Butler, M.D., then a 42-year-old psychiatrist...Achenbaum, W. AndrewAmerican Society on AgingGenerationsAchenbaum, W. A. (2015). A history of ageism since 1969. Journal of the American Society on Aging, 39(3), 10-17....
A great way to present unknown history. Here's a review of The Deviant's War. New book reviews: Making Room by Carl Siciliano tells about the development of the Ali Forney Center in New York City for homeless LGBTQ+ youth. It is also a moving account of gay sanctity. Divining Desire ...
Consultant psychiatrists (general and old age) take a sexual history much more frequently of middle-aged men than of elderly men (p<0.001). There are no statistically significant differences between the two groups of psychiatrists in their psychiatric assessment regarding taking sexual history and ...
A history of frailty, functional autonomy, and comorbidity scales The concepts of functional autonomy, frailty, and comorbidities were created starting in the 1960s and 1970s, following the development of geriatrics. Geriatrics, a newer specialty, emerged in the UK in the 1930s, and then in the...
(1)NO NEED TO SAY MORE.Michael Swanwick recounts what he labels the shortest and most succinct discussion about the horror genre in the history of the speculative fiction community: MICHAEL SWANWICK: “I don’t like horror because it scares me.” ...
In herarticle“NotYour Grandmother’sAgeism?AgeismThroughouttheLifeCourse,”ErinLambexplorestheideaof ageismusingtheexampleof youngpeople: sinceRobertButlerfirst coinedtheterm in 1969,ageismhasbeenusedmost oftentoreferto prejudiceagainstolderpeople, andagestudieshasprimarily focusedonagingintooldage. Butage...
Gary Westfahl has published 25 books about science fiction and fantasy, includingScience Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits(2005),The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969(2012),A Sense-of-Wonderful Century: Explorations of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films(2012); excer...
Ageism, or discrimination based on age, can lead to a variety of stereotypes about both the young and the elderly. Examples of Age-based Stereotyping: Elderly people are technologically challenged: This stereotype suggests that older individuals can’t understand or use modern technology. ...
of “the silent majority,” with deadly force waiting in reserve. Adolph Hitler followed this pattern in the 1930s, when he gave defeated Germany a renewed vision of greatness to come. It’s a pattern that goes far back in history, probably even as far as Nimrod, the great-grandson of ...
November 30, 1959– On UK screens,The Man Who Could Cheat Deathpremiered. Starring Anton Diffring and Christopher Lee,Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Filmssays the film “suffers from an excess of dialogue and a lack of action.” Not surprisingly, it gets only 37% at Rotten...