Book ID: CBB707366985

L'arte di prolungare la vita: Medici, filosofi e alchimisti alla ricerca della longevità (2022)

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Tonetti, Luca (Author)


Editrice Bibliografica


Publication Date: 2022
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.]

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Authors & Contributors
De Ceglia, Francesco Paolo
Burnett, Charles
Coste, Joël
Crisciani, Chiara
Donato, Maria Pia
Dröscher, Ariane
Journals
Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies
History of Science in South Asia
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Medicina Historica
Publishers
Brill
ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
Ashgate
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Concepts
Medicine
Death
Aging
Medicine and religion
Alchemy
Immortality
People
Avicenna
Bacon, Roger
Lancisi, Giovanni Maria
Levi, Giuseppe
Paracelsus, Theophrastus von Hohenheim
Borgognoni, Teodorico
Time Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
13th century
14th century
Early modern
16th century
Places
Europe
Italy
Tibet
Tamil Nadu (India)
Rome (Italy)
France
Institutions
Cambridge University
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