Human Ageing : A Unique Experience: Implications for the Disease Concept
Human Ageing : A Unique Experience: Implications for the Disease Concept
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Author(s): Singer, Michael A.
ISBN No.: 9789814619127
Pages: 336
Year: 201502
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 193.28
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

Human Ageing: A Unique Experience explores the biology of human ageing focusing on the individual. The book begins with the premature ageing disorder Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome and spins a web of interconnected biological domains involving lamins, telomeres, alternative splicing, genetics, epigenetics, and molecular clocks. The profound influence of culture is explored since cultural inheritance and genetic inheritance are the two intertwined processes driving human evolution. An empirical framework is developed to describe human ageing at the individual level and the implications of this framework on the whole concept of diseases are discussed.


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