The Quest for Immortality by S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce Carnes, W. W. Norton
£19.95, ISBN 0393048365
KEEP up the exercise, eat properly—and you may live a few days longer
than an actuary would have predicted. That’s the sensible and utterly unexciting
prescription offered by Jay Olshanksy and Bruce Carnes.
The Quest for Immortality is, as you’ll have guessed, a
down-to-earth survey of the science of ageing. After years of publishing journal
articles, these two University of Chicago researchers decided to explain ageing
to the general public. And they are horribly thorough.
They review the history of beliefs about…
