Why aging research?: The moral imperative to retard human aging

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1197, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-8

  Farrelly, Colin ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Disease; Health span; Rational; Reasonable

Indexed keywords

AGING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GERONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE EXTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MORALITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PILL; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 77953185965     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05188.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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