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| Books LLC : Biogerontologists: Aubrey de Grey, L. Stephen Coles, Leonard Hayflick, Raymond Pearl, Suresh Rattan, Roy Walford, Denham Harman, Alex Comfort | |
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Biogerontologists: Aubrey de Grey, L. Stephen Coles, Leonard Hayflick, Raymond Pearl, Suresh Rattan, Roy Walford, Denham Harman, Alex Comfort |
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English |
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Paperback |
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66 |
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2010-05-06 |
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1155693426 |
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Books LLC |
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0.24 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.16 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Aubrey de Grey, L. Stephen Coles, Leonard Hayflick, Raymond Pearl, Suresh Rattan, Roy Walford, Denham Harman, Alex Comfort, S. Jay Olshansky, George M. Martin, Michael Fossel, Bruce Ames, Michael D. West, Antonei Csoka, Greg Fahy. Excerpt: Alexander Comfort (10 February 1920 26 March 2000) was a medical professional, gerontologist , anarchist , pacifist , conscientious objector and writer, best known for The Joy of Sex , which played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution . He was also the author of many other books on a variety of topics. Education Comfort was educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge . He studied medicine at the University of Cambridge (pre-clinical study leading to a BA, upgraded in 1944 to an MA) and the London Hospital (now known as the Royal London Hospital ), qualifying in 1944 with both the Conjoint diplomas of LRCP London, MRCS England and the Cambridge MB BChir degrees. Life and work Comfort served as a House Physician at the London Hospital and went on to become a lecturer in physiology at the London Hospital Medical College. In 1945 he obtained the Conjoint Board's Diploma in Child Health, and progressed to a PhD in 1950 and a DSc of the University of London in 1963. A leading pacifist, Comfort considered himself "an aggressive anti-militarist", and he believed that pacifism rested "solely upon the historical theory of anarchism". He was an active member of CND . Among the works on anarchism by Comfort is Peace and Disobedience (1946), one of many pamphlets he wrote for Peace News and the Peace Pledge Union , and Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State (1950). He exchanged public correspondence with George Orwell defending pacifism in the open letter/poem "Letter to an American Visitor" under the pseudonym "Obadi...
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