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Title:
How we age : a doctor's journey into the heart of growing old
Author:
Agronin, Marc E.
ISBN:
9780306818530
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st Da Capo Press ed.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, c2011.
Physical Description:
302 p.; 22 cm.
Contents:
What is old? -- Heaven can't wait -- Age, I must -- Long time dead? -- Old age rounds -- Isaac, Erik, Isaac -- Annabe, Bartleby, and the doctor who flunks aging -- Joseph red hair -- Old pickled brain -- Lousy -- The strange but true case of Dawson Da Vinci -- Memory -- If i forget thee -- Savant, of sorts -- Strength in numbers -- Old soldiers in sight -- False and fixed -- Wisdom -- The elders -- Bereft -- Just words -- Liar, liar -- Rules of four -- A million sparks -- Mended -- Lessons from fire -- The seamstress -- Trees.