Medical and Clinical Aspects of Aging

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$12.00 MEDICAL AND CLINICAL ASPECTS OF AGING Edited by Hermán T. Blumenthal The individual and society are today very sensitive to the problem oí senescence, and enjoy and suffer at the same time írom the paradox of longer and healthier lives, relatively shorter working lives, and more hours of leisure. This problem is of worldwide interest and requires the combined and simultaneous efforts of experimentál and humán biology, of practical medicine and psychology, and of the principles and methods of humán development and social organization. This volume concerns itself with the appearance and nature of clinical diseases in old age. The division of the book by organ systems serves to point out that essentially all organ systems share in the increased susceptibility to a variety of diseases which accompanies aging. The papers included here are organized with reference to ten areas: endocrinology, metabolism and exercise, psychiatry, the respiratory system, the skeletal system,... Tovább

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$12.00 MEDICAL AND CLINICAL ASPECTS OF AGING Edited by Hermán T. Blumenthal The individual and society are today very sensitive to the problem oí senescence, and enjoy and suffer at the same time írom the paradox of longer and healthier lives, relatively shorter working lives, and more hours of leisure. This problem is of worldwide interest and requires the combined and simultaneous efforts of experimentál and humán biology, of practical medicine and psychology, and of the principles and methods of humán development and social organization. This volume concerns itself with the appearance and nature of clinical diseases in old age. The division of the book by organ systems serves to point out that essentially all organ systems share in the increased susceptibility to a variety of diseases which accompanies aging. The papers included here are organized with reference to ten areas: endocrinology, metabolism and exercise, psychiatry, the respiratory system, the skeletal system, therapeutics, the peripheral vascular system and atherosclerosis, connective tissue growth and aging, the electroencephalogram in old age and its reiations to mentái function, and the physicians' role in an aging society. The contributors to this volume suggest several ways in which clinical disease and innate aging processes may be related-the possibility that disease processes occurring throughout the life span may leave residues (continued on back flap) >0UT|y Vissza