Quest for Immortality Science at the Frontiers of Aging

Name: Quest for Immortality Science at the Frontiers of Aging
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ISBN: 9780393323276

ISBN-10: 0393323277

ISBN-13: 9780393323276

Edition: N/A

Authors: Bruce A. Carnes, S. Jay Olshansky

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Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Bruce A. Carnes, a senior research scientist at the University of Chicago, is internationally recognized as an expert in the field of aging.

S. Jay Olshansky, a senior research scientist at the University of Chicago, is internationally recognized as an expert in the field of aging.



Foreword


Acknowledgments



Death and Immortality: Early Views



Sex and Death



Life Expectancy



The Public Health Experiment



Manufactured Time



Antioxidants



The Genetic Frontier



Long Life, Fleeting Youth



Longevity for Sale



A Prescription for the Twenty-first Century



The Life Table


Index