Ageing, Healthy, and in Control: An Alternative Approach to Maintaining the Health of Older People |
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... human capacity to learn . Increasingly since the eighteenth century there has been implicit faith in the power of science to solve problems , including the problem of disease . What is not so often recognized is that human learning can ...
... human capacity to learn . Increasingly since the eighteenth century there has been implicit faith in the power of science to solve problems , including the problem of disease . What is not so often recognized is that human learning can ...
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... human adaptation is , para- doxically , that very adaptability , which allows it to adjust to conditions and habits that will eventually destroy the values most characteristic of human life . Biological adaptability has led to the ...
... human adaptation is , para- doxically , that very adaptability , which allows it to adjust to conditions and habits that will eventually destroy the values most characteristic of human life . Biological adaptability has led to the ...
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... Human life is not immune , but part of a highly integrated web . Acid rain will not just kill trees , lakes and rivers , and the fish who live in them ; it will ultimately damage human health . There may be little that an individual can ...
... Human life is not immune , but part of a highly integrated web . Acid rain will not just kill trees , lakes and rivers , and the fish who live in them ; it will ultimately damage human health . There may be little that an individual can ...
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reasserting personal control | 64 |
combating loneliness | 82 |
Diet and nutrition | 98 |
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