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Borrowed Time - The Science of How and Why We Age (Hardcover)
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Borrowed Time - The Science of How and Why We Age (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
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As featured on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week 'A rich, timely study
for the era of "global ageing"' Nature The ageing of the world
population is one of the most important issues facing humanity in
the 21st century - up there with climate change in its potential
global impact. Sometime before 2020, the number of people over 65
worldwide will, for the first time, be greater than the number of
0-4 year olds, and it will keep on rising. The strains this is
causing on society are already evident as health and social
services everywhere struggle to cope with the care needs of the
elderly. But why and how do we age? Scientists have been asking
this question for centuries, yet there is still no agreement. There
are a myriad competing theories, from the idea that our bodies
simply wear out with the rough and tumble of living, like well-worn
shoes or a rusting car, to the belief that ageing and death are
genetically programmed and controlled. In Borrowed Time, Sue
Armstrong tells the story of science's quest to understand ageing
and to prevent or delay the crippling conditions so often
associated with old age. She focusses inward - on what is going on
in our bodies at the most basic level of the cells and genes as the
years pass - to look for answers to why and how our skin wrinkles
with age, our wounds take much longer to heal than they did when we
were kids, and why words escape us at crucial moments in
conversation.This book explores these questions and many others
through interviews with key scientists in the field of gerontology
and with people who have interesting and important stories to tell
about their personal experiences of ageing.
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