“Senility and death of tissues are not a necessary phenomenon”: Alexis Carrel and the Origins of Gerontology (2011)
Park, Hyung Wook (Author)
Korean Journal of Medical History
Volume: 20
Pages: 181--208
Publication date: 2011
Language: English
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Korean.
I argue that Carrel contributed to gerontology in several respects. First, using his immortal tissues, he asserted that aging was a contingent phenomenon that could be experimentally manipulated. Although this claim was eventually challenged, it prompted many scientists to think that aging was not so much an unavoidable, unidirectional phenomenon as a process amenable to experimental approaches. Second, his research on different culture conditions required by distinct cell types encouraged the idea that the rate and mode of aging differed in distinct parts of the body.
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