Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moral Nihilism, Cell Damage, Telomere

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Stephen Lin

Document Summary

Aging lecture 3 notes anti-ageing and successful aging. Advancement in anti-aging science and technology: growing field, especially because larger groups of people getting old. Aging and embodiment: embodiment, experiencing aging through the physical realities of our bodies, symptoms/evidence, skin wrinkles, weight gain, hair loss, especially for men, vitality loss. Aging lecture 3 notes anti-ageing and successful aging: uncontrollable growth of cells would lead to cancer, which is obviously also undesirable. Framing aging in scientific discourse: finding causes of aging theories. If you find cause, can maybe treat: gathering evidence of aging hypothesis testing, treating aging as an undesirable problem or even disease, viewing aging as a medical condition medicalization of aging. The anti-aging discourse: any discussion in which measures or steps are proposed to minimize, reverse, and even prevent signs of aging, other objectives, extending human life (prolongevity, anti-aging as amplified through media and celebrity culture.