The End Of Age - Softcover

Kirkwood, Professor Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861972776 ISBN 13: 9781861972774

Publisher: Profile Books, 2001

Synopsis

Dramatic increases in life-expectancy are shaking the structure of societies around the world and changing our ideas of life and death. But despite the successes that allow countless lives to be lived to the full, which might have been cut short by early death, the future is uncertain. Predictions range from doom-laden images of economic and social disaster to fantasies of technological fixes for the problems of ageing. To understand what is happening we have to harness science. Why and how do we age? Where will the lifespan increase end? Why does ageing make us frail and increasingly vulnerable to disease? Can we slow or even stop the clock?

About this edition

• Publisher: Profile Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1861972776
• ISBN 13: 9781861972774
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144