The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies - Softcover

Metchnikoff, Elie; Mitchell, Peter Chalmers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1142171574 ISBN 13: 9781142171575

Publisher: Nabu Press, 2010

Synopsis

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Review

"Three chief evils that hang over us are disease, old age, and death. To study and control senescence, Metchnikoff proposed the establishment of a new scientific discipline he named 'gerontology.' In this classic text on the prolongation of life, Metchnikoff suggests that science should be encouraged and helped in every possible way in its task of removing the diseases and habits that now prevent human life from running its normal course, and his belief is that, were the task accomplished, the great cause of pessimism would disappear. Metchnikoff was able to proclaim himself an optimist, and found, in biological science, for the present generation a hope, or at the least an end towards which to work, and for future generations a possible achievement of that hope." - From the Introduction by Gerald Gruman, MD, PhD"

About the Author

Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) was Sub-Director of the Pasteur Institute, and a Nobel Prize winner for medicine. Metchnikoff was born in Russia and lived in Paris from 1888, where many of his works were originally published in French. He worked in the fields of embryology, comparative anatomy, pathology, bacteriology and immunology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nabu Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1142171574
• ISBN 13: 9781142171575
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 380