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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Medina, John, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.