Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Explaining Health Across the Sciences : Healthy Ageing and Longevity - Jonathan Sholl

Explaining Health Across the Sciences

By: Jonathan Sholl (Editor), Suresh I.S. Rattan (Editor)

Paperback | 29 August 2021

At a Glance

Paperback


$169.00

or 4 interest-free payments of $42.25 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

Section 1: Health across disciplines



Biology

1. Evolutionary understanding of health - Tom Kirkwood

2. Evolutionary explanation of health - Michael Rose

3. Biodemographic perspective on social health - Jay Olshansky  

4. Biological health and homeodynamic space - Suresh Rattan 


Sociology/psychology

5. Epidemiological view of health - Alex Broadbent, & Likhwa Ncube

6. Healthy society - Uffe Juul Jensen

7. Public health - Carsten Obel

8. Social relations and health - Robert Zachariae 


Philosophy

9. Philosophical concepts of health - Jonathan Sholl & Ma«l Lemoine

10. Interdisciplinary health - Jan-Pieter Konsman

11. Health and authenticity - Des O´Neill


Section 2: Health across systems


Biological structural aspects

12. Healthy nervous system - Vittorio Calabrese

13. Healthy face - Tine Hjorth

14. Healthy immune system

15. Immunity and health - Tamas F¼l¶p, Jacek Witkowski

16. Healthy heart - Ol© F¦rgeman

17. Healthy skeletal system - Moustapha Kassem

18. Healthy blood - Syed Rizvi

19. Molecular biomarkers of health - Jan Nehlin

20. Healthy genome - Robi Tacutu 


Functional aspects

21. Healthy sleep - Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi & Julien Coelho

22. Healthy sexuality - Andreas De Block

23. Healthy mind - Robert Zachariae

24. Healthy psyche - Dominic Murphy and Caitrin Donovan 


Ecological aspects

25. Healthy organism - Anders Olsen

26. Health in non-human animals/organisms - Henrik Lerner

27. Environmental perspective on health - Ed Calabrese


 Section 3: Health in practice

28. Healthspan versus lifespan - Eric Le Bourg

29. Health and immortality - Ilia Stambler

30. Health versus frailty - Arnold Mitnitski

31. Health in clinical practice - Marios Kyriazis

32. Health and pro-longevity interventions - Alex Vaiserman

33. Regulatory understanding of health - Ed Calabrese

34. Health in AI-driven healthcare - J.C Bjerring and Jacob Busch 


Section 4: Bringing health back together

35. Reflections/Conversations on integrated explanations of health with short response to question:

Can there be an integrated science of health? (to be compiled by the editors based on the response of all authors).

Industry Reviews

"This book stands alone in the field in terms of a clinical/theoretical aging book. ... Interest will come from those who want a larger, whole-picture view of aging." (Wendy Boren, Doody's Book Reviews, November 6, 2020)

More in Philosophy

Quantum 2.0 : The Past, Present, and Future of Quantum Physics - Paul Davies
Against the Machine : On the Unmaking of Humanity - Paul Kingsnorth

RRP $55.00

$42.75

22%
OFF
The Power of Choice - Neale Daniher

RRP $39.99

$29.95

25%
OFF
Letters from a Stoic : The Ancient Classic - Seneca

RRP $24.95

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E Frankl

RRP $16.99

$8.50

50%
OFF
Wabi Sabi : Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life - Beth Kempton
We Who Wrestle With God : Perceptions of the Divine - Jordan B. Peterson
Liberalism as a Way of Life - Alexandre Lefebvre

RRP $29.99

$26.75

11%
OFF
On Bullshit : Anniversary Edition - Harry G. Frankfurt
Anxiety : A Philosophical Guide - Samir Chopra

RRP $29.99

$26.75

11%
OFF
Plain Life : On thinking, feeling and deciding - Antonia Pont

RRP $34.99

$29.99

14%
OFF
The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World - William Dalrymple
Monsters : What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People? - Claire Dederer
The Seeker and the Sage - Brigid Delaney

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF