Muriel R. Gillick
Autor de The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies
Sobre El Autor
Muriel R. Gillick, M.D., is Clinical Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston and author of several books, including The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fallacies.
Obras de Muriel R. Gillick
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
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Reseñas
Lifelines: Living Longer, Growing Frail, Taking Heart por Muriel R. Gillick
A specialist in elder care, Dr. Muriel Gillick examines the complications of lives lived far longer than ever before. This book aims to help the frail elderly and their families cope with the often unforeseen dilemmas of aging: the most common chronic ailments, the acute problems, and their impact on living options. Tracing the stories of four people, Dr. Gillick highlights the various challenges and decisions that arise when frailty develops and discusses the importance of prevention and social responsibility in assessing, treating, and living with frailty.… (más)
Nary a mention of Ray Kurzweil here, but there is quotation of Leon Kass, the religion-addled head of Shrubbish's Bioethics Council. Mostly it's an Americentric collection of long, dreary anecdotes about such things as nursing homes and Medicare.
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Miembros
- 90
- Popularidad
- #205,795
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 18