Anti-aging medicine: Predictions, moral obligations, and biomedical intervention

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-31

  Mykytyn, Courtney Everts ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Future Prediction; Nature Disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645913271     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2006.0010     Document Type: Article

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