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Our morbid fascination with death and dying has created an opening for all manner of skullduggery in the science of aging—an area of study that Morbid reveals to be rife with misleading claims, mistaken assumptions, and outright chicanery. The world’s oldest man is a fake, Blue Zones are debunked, and five decades of research on human longevity is moot. What begins with a petition to exhume a famous corpse descends into amusing, if edifying, chaos as Saul Justin Newman sets out to discover what’s rotten and what’s real in the science of dying.
Unraveling an immense scientific scandal, the author finds a billionaire wrapped up in a scheme to tap the blood of Texas teenagers, the whole field of aging awash in dubious money—and himself somehow accused of spying for Russia by a CIA operative. But under the shocking absurdities lurk deadly serious questions about how people age, how long they live, and why. Newman addresses these questions with genuine curiosity and scientific rigor, contributing mathematical evidence and evolutionary insights into the mystery and mechanics of why we age and why we die.
Our morbid fascination with death and dying has created an opening for all manner of skullduggery in the science of aging—an area of study that Morbid reveals to be rife with misleading claims, mistaken assumptions, and outright chicanery. The world’s oldest man is a fake, Blue Zones are debunked, and five decades of research on human longevity is moot. What begins with a petition to exhume a famous corpse descends into amusing, if edifying, chaos as Saul Justin Newman sets out to discover what’s rotten and what’s real in the science of dying.
Unraveling an immense scientific scandal, the author finds a billionaire wrapped up in a scheme to tap the blood of Texas teenagers, the whole field of aging awash in dubious money—and himself somehow accused of spying for Russia by a CIA operative. But under the shocking absurdities lurk deadly serious questions about how people age, how long they live, and why. Newman addresses these questions with genuine curiosity and scientific rigor, contributing mathematical evidence and evolutionary insights into the mystery and mechanics of why we age and why we die.
- Preface – Grave-Robbing in the South of France
- Chapter 1 – Zero Is One
- Chapter 2 – Saecular games and the limits of life
- Chapter 3 – Dining with Kubrick
- Chapter 4 – Paperwork of the Living Dead
- Chapter 5 – Chattahoochie Tenants
- Chapter 6 – Yeti-Hunting in the Blue Zones
- Chapter 7 – Oxford Without Answers
- Chapter 8 – Peach Groves and Virgin-Boats
- Chapter 9 – Mousetraps
- Chapter 10 – Venture-Capital Vampires of California
- Chapter 11 – Telomere Tales
- Chapter 12 – The Death of British Machines
- Chapter 13 – Oysters a la Cyanide
- Chapter 14 – Darwin, Bees, and Big Family Trees
- Chapter 15 – The Salmon of Knowledge
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Soziologie |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780262052719 |
| ISBN-10: | 0262052717 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Newman, Saul Justin |
| Hersteller: | The MIT Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Abbildungen: | 7 b&w illustrations |
| Maße: | 234 x 159 x 31 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Saul Justin Newman |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.10.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,51 kg |
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