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050 00 $aQP85$b.O474 2001
060 00 $a2001 D-600
060 10 $aWT 116$bO52q 2001
082 00 $a612.6/8$221
100 1 $aOlshansky, Stuart Jay,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89603544
245 14 $aThe quest for immortality :$bscience at the frontiers of aging /$cS. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes.
260 $aNew York :$bNorton,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $a254 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
505 2 $aDeath 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 -- Appendix: The life table.
520 1 $a"S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes, leading research scientists in the fields of aging and biodemography, separate fact from fiction in this new book.
520 8 $aMedical technology already allows us to prevent and overcome a dizzying array of illnesses that once were inevitably debilitating or deadly, and researchers are delving even further into the roots of aging, exploring patterns of damage and repair down to the cellular level and launching into the incredibly exciting but also frightening biomedical frontier of genetic engineering.".
520 8 $a"The Quest for Immortality makes clear the difference between science and pseudoscience. Even more important, the authors carefully distinguish between the foolish quest simply to prolong life and the true dream we all share: to live long lives while remaining independent and in good health.".
520 8 $a"Olshansky and Carnes lift from our shoulders the burdens of vitamin vigilance, lifestyle crazes, and other fallacious schemes that some would have us believe are necessary for a long, healthy life. In their prescription for the twenty-first century, they offer us a positive - and accurate - understanding of health, disease, and aging that will maximize both the length and the quality of our lives."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLongevity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078286
650 0 $aAging.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002201
650 12 $aLongevity.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008136
650 22 $aAging.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000375
700 1 $aCarnes, Bruce A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00013956
852 00 $bleh$hQP85$i.O474 2001