L'arte di prolungare la vita: Medici, filosofi e alchimisti alla ricerca della longevità (2022)
Tonetti, Luca (Author)
Editrice Bibliografica
Physical Details: 232 pp.
Language: Italian
La ricerca del segreto della longevità ha da sempre rappresentato una delle sfide più audaci per l’uomo. Grazie ai progressi della scienza oggi sperimentiamo una notevole estensione delle nostre aspettative di vita. Ma è davvero solo un problema di quantità? Il dibattito sul prolungamento della vita, che affonda le sue radici nella medicina antica, attraversa temi fondamentali per la riflessione filosofica e scientifica occidentale: dalle categorie di vita e morte all’essenza della natura umana, dai problemi della vecchiaia ai limiti di intervento dell’uomo. Come è possibile contenere o perfino arrestare il naturale processo degenerativo del nostro corpo? Su quali argomenti si fonda questa sfida? Questo libro ricostruisce la storia di questo affascinante dibattito, ripercorrendone gli sviluppi nella medicina di età moderna, con uno sguardo particolare ai processi di invecchiamento, al rapporto tra alimentazione e corruttibilità dei corpi, alle possibilità della medicina di intervenire in questi processi. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… The search for the secret of longevity has always been one of the greatest challenges for humanity. Thanks to advances in science, today we are experiencing a considerable extension of our life expectancy. But is it really just a question of quantity? The debate on the prolongation of life, which has its roots in ancient medicine, crosses fundamental themes for Western philosophical and scientific reflection: from the categories of life and death to the essence of human nature, from the problems of old age to the limits of intervention of man. How is it possible to contain or even stop the natural degenerative process of our body? On what arguments is this challenge based? This book reconstructs the history of this fascinating debate, retracing its developments in modern medicine, with a particular look at the aging processes, the relationship between diet and the corruptibility of the bodies, the possibilities of medicine to intervene in these processes.]
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Donatella Rossi;
(2018)
Faith or Fate? The Path Towards Immortality According to the Tantric Traditions of Tibet
(/isis/citation/CBB601902513/)
Article
Ilona Barbara Kędzia;
(2017)
Mastering Deathlessness:
(/isis/citation/CBB323792796/)
Article
Matthias Heiduk;
(2018)
A Quest for Longevity? A New Approach to the Earliest Testimonies of Medieval Alchemy
(/isis/citation/CBB144475736/)
Article
Chiara Crisciani;
(2018)
Death as a Destiny and the Hope of Long Life in the Latin Middle Ages
(/isis/citation/CBB657013511/)
Article
Charles Burnett;
(2018)
Natural Death and the Alleviation of Old Age in the Middle Ages
(/isis/citation/CBB019798186/)
Article
Joseph Ziegler;
(2018)
Why Did the Patriarchs Live so Long? On the Role of the Bible in the Discourse on Longevity Around 1300
(/isis/citation/CBB421734385/)
Article
Didier Kahn;
(2018)
Quintessence and the Prolongation of Life in the Works of Paracelsus
(/isis/citation/CBB983986033/)
Article
Melania Borgo;
(2017)
The Heart Burial and the History of an Emblematic Organ
(/isis/citation/CBB133288512/)
Article
Danielle Jacquart;
(2018)
Est-il possible et légitime pour un médecin médiéval de prévoir la longévité d’un patient?
(/isis/citation/CBB945299826/)
Article
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani;
(2018)
The Prolongation of Life and its Limits. Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth c.
(/isis/citation/CBB843072414/)
Article
Joël Coste;
(2018)
La «Mort de Vieillesse» dans les statistiques de mortalité (XVIIe siècle - XXIe siècle): une catégorie problématique
(/isis/citation/CBB020277954/)
Article
Ariane Dröscher;
(2018)
Senescenza, rigenerazione e immortalità: Giuseppe Levi e il fenomeno vitale
(/isis/citation/CBB318884233/)
Book
Tavormina, M. Teresa;
(2006)
Sex, Aging, and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, Its Texts, Language, and Scribe
(/isis/citation/CBB000772098/)
Article
Dagmar Wujastyk;
(2017)
Acts of Improvement:
(/isis/citation/CBB199300900/)
Article
Cathy Cantwell;
(2017)
Reflections on Rasāyana, Bcud Len and Related Practices in Nyingma (Rnying Ma) Tantric Ritual
(/isis/citation/CBB743180295/)
Book
Maria Pia Donato;
(2014)
Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome
(/isis/citation/CBB284454680/)
Book
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia;
(2020)
The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine
(/isis/citation/CBB516817724/)
Chapter
Alan W.H. Bates;
(2020)
Monstrous Exegesis: Opening Up Double Monsters in Early Modern Europe
(/isis/citation/CBB508100640/)
Chapter
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia;
(2020)
Corpses, Evidence and Medical Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
(/isis/citation/CBB767610903/)
Chapter
Paolo Cova;
(2019)
Ipotesi sulla tomba di Teodorico Borgognoni e alcune riflessioni sulle sepolture a Bologna fra Due e Trecento
(/isis/citation/CBB109300487/)
Be the first to comment!