The clock of ages : why we age--how we age--winding back the clock /
Anyone who has watched the wrinkles of time develop on their face, or has been disturbed by a loss of memory, has uncomfortably confronted the human aging process. The inexorable march of time on our bodies begs an important question: why do we have to grow old? Written in everyday language, The Clo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Who ages?
- A slippery overarching definition
- Humanizing aging and death
- Why age at all
- How do we age?
- How the skin and hair age
- The aging of bones, muscles and joints
- The aging of the brain
- How the heart ages
- The aging of the lungs
- What happens to the digestion
- How the senses age
- The aging of the reproductive system
- Why do we age?
- A tale of two theories
- Error accumulation
- Programmed death
- Winding back the clock.