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The 21st century technological development is revolutionizing medicine and health care, bringing new hopes to human suffering by offering cures and treatments which were unthinkable a few decades ago. This is where anti-ageing medicine finds its niche.
Anti-ageing medicine aims at slowing, arresting, and reversing phenomena associated with ageing by merging biotechnological innovation and engineered solutions. Ideally, by means of the newest medical technology, the ‘body machinery’ should be kept fit and at peak performance all life long. Early detection of age-related dysfunction should thus be ‘fixed’ at any age with interventions such as metabolic fine tuning, enhancement, regeneration, restoration or replacement of ‘body parts’ (i.e. organs, skin, bone or muscle). It covers a vast array of domains: from cell therapy to pharmaceutical interventions, from bio-surgery to aesthetic surgery, from human enhancement to fortified food, from smart housing and robots to toxic-free environments.
Anti-ageing medicine holds promises but also significant risks and safety issues which are addressesd in this book. It presents the latest scientific evidence on what works or does not work. It also provides public policy recommendations to ensure the protection of consumers and their rights while encouraging research and development.
This book is intended for academics, health professionals, business persons, consumers and policy-makers interested in the latest evidence and ethical issues about anti-ageing medicine.
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Geriatrie medicine in the 700-year-old Swiss confederation has a relatively short past, but yet is extremely important in the global evolution of this discipline. ActuaIly, two outstanding physicians have contributed to the development of geriatries in Switzerland: F. Verzar (1886-1979) and J. P. Junod (1930-1985). F. Verzar was the first to state the principles and to emphasize the necessity of fundamental research in gerontology (Verzar, 1977). Later, J. P. Junod devel- oped a comprehensive new approach for care based on the bio-psycho-social, environmental, cultural, and emotional features of the elderly patient; this concept requires the multidisciplinary collaboration of health professionals trained in complementary specialities (Martin & Junod, 1983).
What then remains in 1991 of the geriatrie work of these two Swiss pioneers? The answer lies in the appraisal of the health systems, their dynamics, constraints, and outcomes. It also rests on the inventory of clinical and fundamental researches recently carried out in Switzerland, as weIl as on the review of programs of acti vities in gerontology.
Depuis le début du siècle, l’espérance de vie de l’homme et de la femme a considérablement augmenté. Cependant, la femme, par un accroissement plus marqué de son espérance de vie, a nettement creusé la différence par rapport à l’homme. Une des conséquences majeures de ce gain d’années de vie des femmes est que les problèmes du vieillissement touchent différemment l’homme et la femme; les recherches portant sur la spécificité de chaque sexe mettent en lumière une mosaïque complexe de résultats. Les causes de cette différenciation sont intriquées, les facteurs biologiques et psycho-comportementaux se recoupant maintes fois à des facteurs socio-historiques tels que les progrès de la médecine et de l’hygiène ou encore les changements de rôles de l’homme et de la femme. Tout chercheur amené à s’intéresser à l’étude du vieillissement ainsi qu’à l’étude de l’homme et de la femme s’interroge sur les mécanismes en jeu et sur les explications des ces différences ou de ces non-différences.
Ce dossier de recherche est destiné à toutes les personnes s’intéressant aux aspects interdisciplinaires de l’étude du vieillissement et de la différence entre hommes et femmes.
Nombre de pages: 192
