Summary
In a narrative that combines the intensely personal with social, economic, and historical analysis, Jacoby turns an unsparing eye on the marketers of longevity--pharmaceutical companies, lifestyle gurus, and scientific businessmen who suggest that there will soon be a "cure" for the "disease" of agi... Full description
- Never say old
- Youth culture : an American tradition
- Boomer beginnings and age-defying denial
- Miracles of modern medicine and other half-truths
- A mind is a terrible thing to lose
- Women : eventually, the only sex
- Greedy geezers and other half-truths
- The "wisdom of old age"
- Endings
- The ethics of longevity : an argument in search of facts
- Necessary bedfellows : bridges between generations old-age autonomy.