词汇 | ageism |
词源 | ageism. A word coined by Dr. Robert N. Butler in 2006. Dr. Butler, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his Why Survive?, a med- itation on aging, founded the Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s geriatric department. He has suffered ageism himself and en- countered it even in words like retired, which seems to have be- come a synonym for “over the hill.” |
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