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Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age by Sue Armstrong (2019, HC)
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Signed
- No
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Book Series
- Bloomsbury Sigma
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Literary Movement
- Modernism, Realism
- Era
- 2010s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- ISBN
- 9781472936066
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
147293606X
ISBN-13
9781472936066
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038729891
Product Key Features
Book Title
Borrowed Time : the Science of How and Why We Age
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Gerontology, Life Sciences / Biology
Genre
Social Science, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Invigorating." - Booklist "As a seventy-five-year-old man I felt oddly rejuvenated by this book. Try it yourself !" - Professor Steve Jones "Sue Armstrong's book humanely tackles ageing in a way that is grounded, philosophical and makes the most complex science accessible to lay people like me. While not dangling false hopes of innovatory medical cures, it is full of hope about the strides being made in gerontology and pharmacology. And while I may be getting older, the vigour of this book is life-enhancing ." - Claire Fox, Director of the Academy of Ideas and panellist on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze "Authoritative, comprehensible and fun to read . The book ageing research has been waiting for." - Richard Faragher, Professor of Biogerontology at the University of Brighton "Borrowed Time gives a wonderful overview of the fast-evolving science of longevity. I thoroughly recommend this book as a primer on what will become a key industry in the next two decades or so." - Jim Mellon, Chairman, Juvenescence Ltd., Engrossing questions throng science writer Sue Armstrong's round-up of research on the biology of ageing. A rich, timely study for the era of 'global ageing'., Sue Armstrong's book humanely tackles ageing in a way that is grounded, philosophical and makes the most complex science accessible to lay people like me. While not dangling false hopes of innovatory medical cures, it is full of hope about the strides being made in gerontology and pharmacology. And while I may be getting older, the vigour of this book is life-enhancing ., " Borrowed Time gives a wonderful overview of the fast-evolving science of longevity. I thoroughly recommend this book as a primer on what will become a key industry in the next two decades or so." -- Jim Mellon, Chairman, Juvenescence Ltd., Armstrong, a British science and health writer, presents, in crack Michael Lewis style, the high points of aging research along with capsule biographies of the main players., Borrowed Time gives a wonderful overview of the fast-evolving science of longevity. I thoroughly recommend this book as a primer on what will become a key industry in the next two decades or so., "Invigorating." -- Booklist "As a seventy-five-year-old man I felt oddly rejuvenated by this book. Try it yourself !" -- Professor Steve Jones "Sue Armstrong's book humanely tackles ageing in a way that is grounded, philosophical and makes the most complex science accessible to lay people like me. While not dangling false hopes of innovatory medical cures, it is full of hope about the strides being made in gerontology and pharmacology. And while I may be getting older, the vigour of this book is life-enhancing ." -- Claire Fox, Director of the Academy of Ideas and panellist on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze " Authoritative, comprehensible and fun to read . The book ageing research has been waiting for." -- Richard Faragher, Professor of Biogerontology at the University of Brighton " Borrowed Time gives a wonderful overview of the fast-evolving science of longevity. I thoroughly recommend this book as a primer on what will become a key industry in the next two decades or so." -- Jim Mellon, Chairman, Juvenescence Ltd., Ms Armstrong doesn't pretend that there is any one answer to the question of why we age as we do. The science she presents is a grab bag of divergent theories, each championed by a scientific subspeciality., "Invigorating." -- Booklist " Borrowed Time gives a wonderful overview of the fast-evolving science of longevity. I thoroughly recommend this book as a primer on what will become a key industry in the next two decades or so." -- Jim Mellon, Chairman, Juvenescence Ltd.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
612.67
Table Of Content
PrologueChapter 1: A question of definitionChapter 2: Wear and tear?Chapter 3: Telomeres: the ticking clock in our cellsChapter 4: Down but not out: senescent cellsChapter 5: Old before their timeChapter 6: Ming the mollusc and other modelsChapter 7: It's in the genesChapter 8: Eat less; live longer Chapter 9: Epigenetics and stem cellsChapter 10: The ageing immune systemChapter 11: The sting in the tail of HIV/AIDSChapter 12: The Big D - familial Alzheimer's diseaseChapter 13: Broken brains Chapter 14: Turning back the clock
Synopsis
The question of how and why organisms age has teased scientists for centuries. There are myriad competing theories, from the idea that aging is a simple wear and tear process, like the rusting of a car, to the belief that aging and death are genetically programmed and controlled. In fact, there is no clearly defined limit to life, and no single, predictable program playing itself out: different things are happening within and between tissues, and each system or organ accumulates damage at its own pace, according to the kind of insults imposed on it by daily living. Sometime before 2020, the number of people over sixty-five worldwide will, for the first time, be greater than the number of 0-4 year olds; and by 2050 there are likely to be 2.5 times as many older people in the world as toddlers. Sue Armstrong tells the story of society's quest to understand aging through the eyes of the scientists themselves, as well as through the "ordinary" people who exemplify the mysteries of ageing--from those who suffer from the premature aging condition, Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, to people still running marathons in their 80s. Borrowed Time will investigate such mind-boggling experiments as transfusing young blood into old rodents, and research into transplanting the first human head, among many others. It will explore where science is taking us and what issues are being raised from a psychological, philosophical and ethical perspective, through interviews with, and profiles of, key scientists in the field and the people who represent interesting and important aspects of aging.
LC Classification Number
QP86
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