Longevity and Quality of Life

Edited by Robert N. Butler — a Pulitzer Prize winner and founding figure of gerontology — this multidisciplinary colloquium volume has real intellectual credentials and a more accessible scope than pure bench-science proceedings. But the content is now likely dated given 25-plus years of advances in longevity science, and no mainstream critical reception record makes independent quality assessment difficult. Historians of gerontology and policy researchers may find it useful; for everyone else it is a pass.