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The Biology of Death

Author : Gary C. Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190687746
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Death written by Gary C. Howard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does death help us understand the living? Death is more than the last event of life; it is interwoven into our growth, development, protection against disease, and more. It influences the direction of entire species via the cycle of a lifespan, and it involves asking many fascinating questions. How do we differentiate between life and death, though? How do we know when a person, animal, or cell is really dead? How much grey area is there in the science? Why do we age? Can we do anything about it? Scientifically, there's much we can learn about a living thing from its cells. In all living things, cells seem to carry "death" gene programs. Some living organisms have created systems to use these to their own advantage. Humans, for example, use the death of specific cells to hone our immune system and to give us fingernails and hair. Perhaps the most dramatic use occurs during the metamorphosis of insects and frogs. Even single-celled organisms use "quorum sensing" to eliminate some cells to ensure the overall survival of their colony in harsh environments. Thus, there is more to death than just dying. This latest book from science writer Gary C. Howard ties together the many ways that death helps us understand life. He synthesizes the involvement and relation of cells, tissues, organisms, and populations, explaining what happens at the end of life. Between discussions about popular topics such as the ethics of extending life and cell regeneration, Howard also answers fascinating questions about life and death. The resulting book examines how the end of life is determined and what we can learn from this process.

The Biology of Death

Author : Gary C. Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197601433
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Death written by Gary C. Howard and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Biology of Death ties together the many ways that death helps scientists understand life. In the book, science writer Gary C. Howard synthesizes the involvement and relation of cells, tissues, organisms, and populations, offering a comprehensive overview of what happens at the end of life.

The Biology of Death

Author : André Klarsfeld
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801441189
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Death written by André Klarsfeld and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we die? Do all living creatures share this fate? Is the body's slow degradation with the passage of time unavoidable, or can the secrets of longevity be unlocked? Over the past two decades, scientists studying the workings of genes and cells have uncovered some of the clues necessary to solve these mysteries. In this fascinating and accessible book, two neurobiologists share the often-surprising findings from that research, including the possibility that aging and natural death may not be forever a certainty for most living beings. André Klarsfeld and Frédéric Revah discuss in detail the latest scientific findings and views on death and longevity. They challenge many popular assumptions, such as the idea that the death of individual organisms serves to rejuvenate species or that death and sexual reproduction are necessarily linked. Finally, they describe current experimental approaches to postpone natural death in lower organisms as well as in mammals. Are all organisms that survive until late in life condemned to a "natural" death, as a consequence of aging, even if they live in a well-protected, supportive environment? The variability of the adult life span--from a few hours for some insects to more than a millennium for the sequoia and thirteen times that for certain wild berry bushes--challenges the notion that death is unavoidable. Evolutionary theory helps explain why and how some species have achieved biological mechanisms that seemingly allow them to resist time. Death cannot be understood without looking into cells--the essential building blocks of life. Intriguingly, at the level of cells, death is not always an accident; it is often programmed as an indispensable aspect of life, which benefits the organism as a whole.

The Biology of Death ...

Author : Raymond Pearl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Death ... written by Raymond Pearl and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sex and Death

Author : Kim Sterelny
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226773049
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Sex and Death written by Kim Sterelny and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introduction to philosophy of biology, Kim Sterelny and Paul E. Griffiths present both the science and the philosophical context necessary for a critical understanding of the debates shaping biology at the end of the 20th century.

Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

Author : Floris Tomasini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137538287
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Remembering and Disremembering the Dead written by Floris Tomasini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of the dead, and makes connections to a historical oeuvre, to add critical value to similar concepts in history that are overlooked by most philosophers. There is a long historical view of case studies that illustrate the conceptual character of posthumous punishment; that is, dissection and gibbetting of the criminal corpse after the Murder Act (1752), and those shot at dawn during the First World War. A long historical view is also taken of posthumous harm; that is, body-snatching in the late Georgian period, and organ-snatching at Alder Hey in the 1990s.

Biology of Death

Author :
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Death

Author : Philippe Huneman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031144171
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Death written by Philippe Huneman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses several key issues in the biological study of death with the intent of capturing their genealogy, the assumptions and presuppositions they make, and the way that they open specific new research avenues. The book is divided into two sections: the first considers physiology and the second evolutionary biology. In the first part, Huneman reconstructs a conceptual genealogy of experimental physiology based on an in-depth analysis of Bichat's investigations of death processes. In the second part he explains that biologists in the late 1950s put forth a research framework that evolutionarily accounts for death in terms of either an effect of the weakness of natural selection or a by-product of natural selection for early reproduction. He illustrates how the biology of death is a central field and that studying it provides insight into the way that the epistemic structure of this knowledge has been constituted, persists until now, and may conflict with some traditional philosophical ideas.

The Biology of Death

Author : Raymond Pearl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Death written by Raymond Pearl and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Revolutionary Origins of Life and Death

Author : Pierre M. Durand
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022674793X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Revolutionary Origins of Life and Death written by Pierre M. Durand and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand’s ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us, cell death is a fascinating lens through which to examine the interconnectedness, in evolutionary terms, of life and death. It is a truism to note that one does not exist without the other, but just how does this play out in evolutionary history? These two processes have been studied from philosophical, theoretical, experimental, and genomic angles, but no one has yet integrated the information from these various disciplines. In this work, Durand synthesizes cellular studies of life and death looking at the origin of life and the evolutionary significance of programmed cellular death. The exciting and unexpected outcome of Durand’s analysis is the realization that life and death exhibit features of coevolution. The evolution of more complex cellular life depended on the coadaptation between traits that promote life and those that promote death. In an ironic twist, it becomes clear that, in many circumstances, programmed cell death is essential for sustaining life.

The Biology of death c. 2

Author : Raymond Pearl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Biology of death c. 2 written by Raymond Pearl and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life and Death

Author : Ernst Gustav Georg Teichmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Life and Death written by Ernst Gustav Georg Teichmann and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Apoptosis

Author : C. S. Potten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521626798
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Apoptosis written by C. S. Potten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of programmed cell death, or apoptosis, has exploded into a major scientific field of interest for cell biologists, oncologists, and many other biomedical researchers. Apoptosis occurs throughout the lifetime of most multicellular organisms. During development, for example, the selective death of cells is vital to remove tissue between the digits to produce fingers and toes. Apoptosis is also necessary to destroy cells that represent a threat to the integrity of the organism, for example cells infected by a virus. In many cancers the genes regulating apoptosis are defective, producing immortal, continuously proliferating cells. This book discusses the philosophical and technical difficulties in defining the moment of death for a cell, as well as the biological implications and significance of programmed cell death. Recent developments in the genetic control and interacting gene networks associated with apoptosis are presented. The book is written for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, and is highly illustrated to aid understanding.

The Evolution of Death

Author : Stanley Shostak
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148081X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Death written by Stanley Shostak and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Evolution of Death, the follow-up to Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy, also published by SUNY Press, Stanley Shostak argues that death, like life, can evolve. Observing that literature, philosophy, religion, genetics, physics, and gerontology still struggle to explain why we die, Shostak explores the mystery of death from a biological perspective. Death, Shostak claims, is not the end of a linear journey, static and indifferent to change. Instead, he suggests, the current efforts to live longer have profoundly affected our ecological niche, and we are evolving into a long-lived species. Pointing to the artificial means currently used to prolong life, he argues that as we become increasingly juvenilized in our adult life, death will become significantly and evolutionarily delayed. As bodies evolve, the embryos of succeeding generations may be accumulating the stem cells that preserve and restore, providing the resources necessary to live longer and longer. If trends like this continue, Shostak contends, future human beings may join the ranks of other animals with indefinite life spans.

Mortal Minds

Author : Gerald M. Woerlee
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615925988
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Mortal Minds written by Gerald M. Woerlee and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its easy-to-read and personal style, this book provides some intriguing new explanations of the physiology of death and the dying experience.--Susan Blackmore, PhD, Author of Dying to LiveDying is the last conscious experience undergone by each person. But what do the dying experience? In the last few decades a good deal of publicity has surrounded people who have been close to death and then reported intense experiences that seem to suggest a supernatural existence beyond death. Does the conscious mind somehow continue to exist after the body has passed away? Mortal Minds answers these questions.Dr. G. M. Woerlee explains how the normal functioning of the human body near death can generate beliefs in the reality of the supernatural and life after death. An anesthesiologist with more than twenty years of hospital experience, Dr. Woerlee has been struck over the years by the similarities between the body's symptoms under anesthesia and its reactions near death. Among the issues he addresses are the sensations of being disembodied that those near death often describe, the perception that mind and body are separate components of existence, whether there is such a thing as a soul, the physical effects of decreased oxygen to the brain, and the visions that the dying sometimes report, from rapturous experiences of eternal peace to diabolical dreams.While not dismissing near death experiences as mere hallucinations, Dr. Woerlee is also careful to point out that even powerful psychological impressions by themselves do not constitute scientific proof of life after death. Taking this balanced, objective stance, he succeeds in conveying a better understanding of the dying process and helping us all to realize the nature of these final experiences.G. M. Woerlee (Leiden, The Netherlands) is an anesthesiologist affiliated with the Rijnland Hospital in Leiderdorp, The Netherlands, and the author of two books on anesthesiology.

The Biology of Death

Author : Raymond Pearl
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332599080
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Death written by Raymond Pearl and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Biology of Death: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in December 1920 What I tried to do in these lectures was to bring together under a unified viewpoint some of the more im portant contributions which have been made to our know ledge of natural death, from three widely scattered sources: namely general biology, experimental biology, and statistical and actuarial science. It will be obvious to anyone who knows the literature from these fields regarding natural death and the duration of life that in such an amount of space as is here used, no one could hope to cover a field so wide with anything approaching completeness. To do so would require a series of volumes in place of one small one. But this has in no wise been my object; I have instead hoped that the very incomplete ness itself of this work, necessitated by my limitations of space and knowledge, might stimulate the reader to penetrate for himself further into the literature of this fascinating and important field of biology. To help him to start upon this excursion a brief bibliography is appended. It by no means completely covers the field, but may perhaps serve as an introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Biology of Death

Author : Raymond Pearl
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781357490645
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Death written by Raymond Pearl and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.