Author: Granville Stanley HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Senescence, the last half of life
Author: Granville Stanley HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Senescence, the Last Half of Life
Author: G. Stanley HallPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This is a medical book about old age. It contains research, known facts of the time, information about medical intervention and dealing with death among other things. It was published first in 1922.
Senescence, the Last Half of Life
Author: Granville Stanley HallPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Senescence The Last Half of Life G. Stanley Hall, Ph.D., LL.D.
Senescence, the Last Half of Life
Author: Granville Stanley HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Old age
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Long and the Short of It
Author: Jonathan SilvertownPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022607210X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
“[A] whimsical book on aging . . . the author mixes art, science, and humor to brew a highly readable concoction, presenting one aging theory after another.” —Publishers Weekly Everything that lives will die. That’s the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly in their patterns of aging and their life spans—and that variation is nothing compared to what’s found in other animal and plant species. With The Long and the Short of It, biologist and writer Jonathan Silvertown offers readers a witty and fascinating tour through the scientific study of longevity and aging. Dividing his daunting subject by theme—death, life span, aging, heredity, evolution, and more—Silvertown draws on the latest scientific developments to paint a picture of what we know about how life span, senescence, and death vary within and across species. At every turn, he addresses fascinating questions that have far-reaching implications: What causes aging, and what determines the length of an individual life? What changes have caused the average human life span to increase so dramatically—fifteen minutes per hour—in the past two centuries? If evolution favors those who leave the most descendants, why haven’t we evolved to be immortal? The answers to these puzzles and more emerge from close examination of the whole natural history of life span and aging, from fruit flies, nematodes, redwoods, and much more. The Long and the Short of It pairs a perpetually fascinating topic with a wholly engaging writer, and the result is a supremely accessible book that will reward curious readers of all ages. “Captivating and enlightening.” —The New York Times Well Blog
SENESCENCE
Author: G. STANLEY. HALLPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033205983
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Senescence; the Last Half of Life
Author: Granville Stanley HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Gerontology
Author: Janet May WilmothPublisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826102301
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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The Aesthetics of Senescence
Author: Andrea CharisePublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438477457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience. The Aesthetics of Senescence investigates how chronological age has come to possess far-reaching ideological, ethical, and aesthetic implications, both in the past and present. Andrea Charise argues that authors of the nineteenth century used the imaginative resources of literature to engage with an unprecedented climate of crisis associated with growing old. Marshalling a great variety of canonical authors including William Godwin, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and George Gissing, as well as less familiar writings by George Henry Lewes, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Agnes Strickland, and Max Nordau, Charise demonstrates why the imaginative capacity of writing became an interdisciplinary crucible for testing what it meant to grow old at a time of profound cultural upheaval. Charise’s grounding in medicine, political history, literature, and genre offers a fresh, original, thoroughly interdisciplinary analysis of nineteenth-century aging and age theory, as well as new insights into the rise of the novel—a genre usually thought of as affiliated almost entirely with the young or middle-aged. “Charise’s brilliantly argued, clearly written book is an important intervention in nineteenth-century British literature, age studies, and medical humanities. It brings these areas of inquiry together in what seems a seamless way—as if they have always traveled together or ought to have. Through an investigation of what she calls the ‘aesthetics of embodiment that shaped nineteenth-century visions of aging,’ Charise has given us an original and groundbreaking study of literary, historical, anthropological, and philosophical texts.” — Devoney Looser, author of The Making of Jane Austen
The Short Guide to Aging and Gerontology
Author: de Medeiros, KatePublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447328396
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
As the field of aging and gerontology grows worldwide, this exciting guide introduces students to key issues and concepts. It covers topics related to the phenomena of advancing aging, including how older age has been defined historically, cultural myths related to advanced age, health and function in later life, how older age is financed throughout the world, and other key questions. Taking a multiple-perspective approach (including humanities, social and behavioral sciences and policy studies), the book's features include further reading for each chapter, a glossary of key terms, and tables that provide easy reference points.