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Handbook of Pain and Aging
. Ed(S): Mostofsky, David I.; Lomranz, Jacob
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paperback. Editor(s): Mostofsky, David I.; Lomranz, Jacob. Series: The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging. Num Pages: 395 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 773.
From time to time, professional journals and edited volumes devote some of their pages to considerations of pain and aging as they occur among the aged in different cultures and populations. One starts from several reasonable assumptions, among them that aging per se is not a disease process, yet the risk and frequency of disease processes increase with ongoing years. The physical body's functioning and ability to restore all forms of damage and insult slow down, the immune system becomes compromised, and the slow-growing pathologies reach their critical mass in the later years. The psychological body also becomes weaker, with ... Read more
From time to time, professional journals and edited volumes devote some of their pages to considerations of pain and aging as they occur among the aged in different cultures and populations. One starts from several reasonable assumptions, among them that aging per se is not a disease process, yet the risk and frequency of disease processes increase with ongoing years. The physical body's functioning and ability to restore all forms of damage and insult slow down, the immune system becomes compromised, and the slow-growing pathologies reach their critical mass in the later years. The psychological body also becomes weaker, with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
Series
The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging
Number of Pages
395
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781489902856
SKU
V9781489902856
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