Overview
- The first book to discuss gerontology and geriatrics in terms of evolutionary medicine
- Provides strong evidence and arguments of the possibility that aging is an adaptive phenomenon
- Shows how we age, in particular the mechanisms that disrupt cellular functionality and cell turnover
Part of the book series: Advances in Studies of Aging and Health (ADSAH, volume 2)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Aging Theories
- Aging Treatment
- Biogerontology
- Evolutionary Medicine
- Gerontology and Geriatrics
- Gradual Cell Senescence
- Phenoptosis
- Population Aging
- Telomerase
- Telomere and Subtelomere Aging
- Telomeric Hood and Telomeric Position Effect
- TERRA
- Population Mortality
- Unhealthy Lifestyle
- Modifying or Cancelling Population Aging
- Physiological Aging
About this book
The discussion is conducted within the frame and the concepts of evolutionary medicine, which is also indispensable for distinguishing between the manifestations of aging and: (i) diseases that worsen with age, and (ii) acceleration of normal aging rates, caused by unhealthy lifestyle habits and other avoidable factors. The book also discusses the impact of aging on overall mortality and the strange situation that, according to official statistics, aging does not exist as cause of death.
This book is a turning point between a gerontology and geriatrics conceived as the study and vain treatment of an incurable condition and one in which these disciplines examine the how and why of a physiological phenomenon that can be modified up to a possible total control. This means transforming the medical prevention and treatment of physiological aging from the greatest failure to the greatest success of medicine.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Graziamaria Corbi, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy. She has contributed to over 120 publications covering internal medicine, geriatrics, cardiology, clinical pharmacology and public health.
Valeria Conti, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Salerno, Italy. She is a brilliant young researcher with over sixty publications in the fields of clinical pharmacology, cardiology and geriatrics.
Olga Shubernetskaya, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia. She is a very promising and innovative scholar of telomere and telomerase biology.
Nicola Ferrara, PhD, is Professor of the Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Federico II Univ. of Naples, Italy, Dean of the Specialization School in Gerontology and Geriatrics, and former President of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics. He has contributed to about 350 works in many fields including mainly cardiology, geriatrics, and biogerontology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolutionary Gerontology and Geriatrics
Book Subtitle: Why and How We Age
Authors: Giacinto Libertini, Graziamaria Corbi, Valeria Conti, Olga Shubernetskaya, Nicola Ferrara
Series Title: Advances in Studies of Aging and Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73774-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73773-3Published: 26 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73776-4Published: 27 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73774-0Published: 25 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2522-5146
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5154
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 413
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations, 124 illustrations in colour
Topics: Demography, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Evolutionary Biology, Epidemiology