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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

GERIATRICS / Gerontology / Aging

Exhibiting 36 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1951 CEA classified bibliography of gerontology and geriatrics.
SHOCK, Nathan Wetherill (1906 – 1989)
2003 CEA history of ideas about the prolongation of life: The evolution of prolongevity hypotheses to 1800.
GRUMAN, Gerald Joseph (1926 – 2007)
1849 CEA practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life. With an appendix, containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and other neuralgic affections, and certain forms of paralysis.
DAY, George Edward (1815 – 1872)
1978 CEA tandemly repeated sequence at the termini of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA genes in Tetrahymena.
GALL, Joseph Grafton (1928 – )
BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – )
BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – )
1979 CEAging: Its history and literature.
FREEMAN, Joseph T.
FREEMAN, Joseph T.
2004 CEAlter und Krankheit in der Frühen Neuzeit. Der ärztliche Blick auf die letzte Lebensphase.
SCHÄFER, Daniel 1964
1817 CEAn essay on the disorders of old age, and on the means of prolonging life.
CARLISLE, Sir Anthony (1868 – 1840)
1995 CECrossing frontiers: Gerontology emerges as a science.
ACHENBAUM, W. Andrew (1947 – )
1469 CEDe officiis. Add: Paradoxa Stoicorum; Laelius, sive de amicitia; Cato maior, sive de senectute.
CICERO, Marcus Tullius (-106 – -43)
1928 CEDe retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. Nunc primum ediderunt A. G. Little [and] E. Withington.
WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292)
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292) LITTLE, A. G. (1863 – 1945)
1839 CEDie Krankheiten des höhren Alters und ihre Heilung. 2 vols.
CANSTATT, Carl Friedrich (1807 – 1850)
1970 CEGeorge A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.
SACHER, George A. (1917 – 1981) FINCH, Caleb Ellicott (1939 – )
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)
1914 CEGeriatrics: The diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations.
NASCHER, Ignatz Leo (1863 – 1944)
NASCHER, Ignatz Leo (1863 – 1944)
1489 CEGerontocomia.
ZERBI, Gabriele (1445 – 1505)
1965 CEGeschichte der Geriatrie. Dreitausend Jahre Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie des alten Menschen.
LÜTH, Paul Egon Heinrich (1921 – 1986)
1985 CEIdentification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts.
BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – )
BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen (1948 – ) GRIEDER, Carolyn Widney (1961 – )
1867 CELeçons sur les maladies des vieillards et les maladies chroniques.
CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)
CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)
1590 CELibellus Rogerii Baconi Angli doctissimi mathematici et medici, De retardandis senectutis accidentibus et de sensibus conservandis.... opera Johannis Williams Oxoniensis.
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292)
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292) WILLIAMS, John ( – 1613)
1744 CEM. T. Cicero's Cato major, or his course of old-age: with explanatory notes.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
LOGAN, James (1674 – 1751)
LOGAN, James (1674 – 1751) CICERO, Marcus Tullius (-106 – -43)
1724 CEMedicina gerocomica; or the Galenic art of preserving old men’s healths.
FLOYER, Sir John (1649 – 1734)
FLOYER, Sir John (1649 – 1734)
1889 CEOld age: The results of information received respecting nearly nine hundred persons who had attained the age of eighty years, including seventy-four centenarians.
HUMPHRY, Sir George Murray (1820 – 1896)
HUMPHRY, Sir George Murray (1820 – 1896)
1860 CEOn the law of mortality and the construction of annuity tables.
MAKEHAM, William Matthews (1826 – 1891)
1825 CEOn the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies.
GOMPERTZ, Benjamin (1779 – 1865)
GOMPERTZ, Benjamin (1779 – 1865)
1768 CEProdromo di un opera da imprimersi sopra le riproduzione animali.
SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729 – 1799)
SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729 – 1799)
1995 CEProfiles in gerontology: A biographical dictionary
ALBERT, Daniel Myron (1936 – )
ALBERT, Daniel Myron (1936 – ) ACHENBAUM, W. Andrew (1947 – )
1934 CEProlonging the life span.
MCCAY, Clive Maine (1898 – 1967)
CROWELL, Mary F.
CROWELL, Mary F.
2001 CERising life expectancy: A global history.
RILEY, James C. (1943 – )
2006 CESex, aging, & death in a medieval medical compendium. Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, its texts, language and scribe. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina.
TAVORMINA, Mary Teresa (1951 – )
1889 CEThe action of natural selection in producing old age, decay, and death. In Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems by August Weismann; authorized translation edited by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schönland and Arthur E. Shipley, Chapter 1, "The duration of life," page 23.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WEISMANN, August Friedrich Leopold (1834 – 1914)
WEISMANN, August Friedrich Leopold (1834 – 1914)
1935 CEThe care of the aged, the dying and the dead.
WORCESTER, Alfred (1855 – 1951)
WORCESTER, Alfred (1855 – 1951)
1923 CEThe chemical basis of growth and senescence.
ROBERTSON, Thorburn Brailsford (1884 – 1930)
ROBERTSON, Thorburn Brailsford (1884 – 1930)
1807 CEThe code of health and longevity; or, a concise view of the principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life. 4 vols.
SINCLAIR, Sir John (1754 – 1835)
SINCLAIR, Sir John (1754 – 1835)
2013 CEThe inevitable hour: A history of caring for dying patients in America.
ABEL, Emily K. (1942 – )
1908 CEThe problem of age, growth and death.
MINOT, Charles Sedgwick (1852 – 1914)
MINOT, Charles Sedgwick (1852 – 1914)
1961 CEThe serial cultivation of human diploid cell strains.
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024) MOORHEAD, Paul Sidney (1924 – )
1558 CETrattato de la vita sobria.
CORNARO, Alvise (Luigi) (1467 – 1566)