Robert H. Binstock Ph.D.
Professor of Bioethics, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Medicine, Nursing, Political Science, and Sociology
Aging and Public Policy
Health Policy
Office Phone: 216-368-3717
e-mail: rhb3@case.edu
Bio
ROBERT H. BINSTOCK is Professor of Aging, Health, and Society, at Case Western Reserve University. His primary tenured appointments are in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in the School of Medicine, and in the School of Nursing. He holds secondary appointments as Professor in the departments of Bioethics, Medicine, Political Science, and Sociology.
A former president of the Gerontological Society of America, Dr. Binstock has served as director of a White House Task Force on Older Americans, and as chairman and member of a number of advisory panels to the United States government, state and local governments, and foundations. He is also a former Chair of the Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association. He has frequently testified before the U.S. Congress. He is presently a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Aging Society Network.
Professor Binstock has published about 300 articles, book chapters, monographs, and books. Most of them deal with politics and policies affecting aging. His 25 authored and edited books include Aging Nation: The Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America (2008), and six editions of the Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences (the most recent published in 2006). Among the honors he has received for contributions to gerontology and the well-being of older persons are the Kent Award and the Brookdale Award from the Gerontological Society of America; the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Key Award from the American Public Health Association’s Gerontological Health Section; the American Society on Aging Award, and the American Society on Aging’s Hall of Fame Award, and the Ollie A. Randall Award from the National Council on Aging.
He received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Harvard University.
Recent Publications
Robert H. Binstock, “Bioethicist Revives Elder Healthcare Rationing,” Aging Today , Vol. 30, No. 2(2009), p. 4.
Robert H. Binstock and James H. Schulz, “Can Threats to Social Insurance in the United States Be Repelled?” in Leah Rogne, Carroll Estes, Brian R. Grossman, Brooke A. Hollister, and Erica Solway (eds.), Social Insurance and Social Justice: Social Security, Medicare and the Campaign Against Entitlements (New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2009), pp. 197-215.
Robert H. Binstock, “Social Policy in Gerontology and Geriatrics Education,” in Marie A. Bernard and Harvey Sterns (Ed.), Gerontological and Geriatric Education ; 2008 Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics (New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2009), pp. 73-92).
Robert H. Binstock, “The Boomers in Politics: Impact and Consequences,” in Robert B. Hudson (ed.), Boomer Bust: Economic and Political Dynamics of the Graying Society, Vol. I: Perspectives on the Boomers (Westport, CT, Praeger, 2009), pp. 135-152.
Robert H. Binstock, “Older Voters and the 2008 Election,” The Gerontologist Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 697-701.
Recent Activities
September 29, 2009:Keynote speech on “The Politics of Aging in the United States” at a public forum on Politics of Aging, sponsored by the Australian Research Council, in Canberra, Australia.
October 1, 2009: Lecture on “Our Aging Societies: Political and Policy Challenges” at the University of Melbourne School of Health Sciences, Melbourne, Australia.
October 6, 2009: Lecture on “Anti-Aging Medicine and Science: An Arena of Conflict and Profound Implications,” presented for the University Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Contact Information
Bob Binstock, Ph.D.
Professor of Aging, Health, and Society
School of Medicine, Rm. WG-43
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106-4945
tel 216-368-3717
fax 216-368-3970
e-mail: rhb3@case.edu