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The longevity revolution : the benefits and challenges of living a long life
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The longevity revolution : the benefits and challenges of living a long life

著者： Robert N Butler
出版商： New York : PublicAffairs, ©2008.
版本/格式：  图书 : 英语 : 1st ed查看所有的版本和格式
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From the Publisher: Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years, and the growing number of people over age sixty-five. Alarmingly, our society has not adapted to this change. In this urgent and ultimately optimistic book, Butler calls for  再读一些...
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所有的著者/提供者： Robert N Butler
ISBN: 9781586485535 1586485539
OCLC号码： 182613551
描述： xv, 553 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
内容： Preface --
pt. 1. Introduction --
1. What is the longevity revolution? --
pt. 2. Challenges --
2. The new longevity is the biggest challenge --
3. "The greedy geezer" : the manufactured clash of the generations --
4. Ageism : another form of bigotry --
5. The changing family and longevity --
6. The disorders of longevity --
pt. 3. Science --
7. Human interest in longevity : the power of research --
8. Alzheimer's : the epidemic of the twenty-first century --
9. The "biology of extended time" : evolution and longevity --
10. Cycles, clocks, and power plants : longevity science and aging research --
pt. 4. Solutions --
11. Toward a prescription for longevity and quality of life : health promotion and disease prevention --
12. Redesigning health care for an older America --
13. Live longer, work longer: productive engagement --
14. Social Security : self-responsibility, and the state --
15. The private sector : providence and risk--
the role of the marketplace --
16. The politics of aging and longevity --
17. Population solutions to longevity : transition to stable populations --
pt. 5. Cautions --
18. Worldwide democratization of longevity : overcoming famine, war, and pestilence --
19. Threats to longevity : could we lose the longevity revolution? --
pt. 6. Imagining longevity --
20. The good life : quality of life in the era of longevity --
21. Imagining longevity : challenges of the future --
Appendix : Tables --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Acknowledgments --
Index --
About the author.
责任： Robert N. Butler.
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A pioneering, Pulitzer Prize winning doctor reflects on the recent unprecedented leap in human life expectancy-and what we must do to take advantage of it  再读一些...

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"New England Journal of Medicine"
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