On Ageing and Old Age

Grmek, Mirko Dražen

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“…in fi nale formaat gegiet) het in die Septuagint die relatief onskuldige skilferige velsiekte lepra genoem, en Josefus (1ste eeu n.C.) vertaal tsara'at ook as lepra. 20 Die Romeinse geskiedskrywer Tacitus (1ste eeu n.C.) 21 het dit egter vertaal as "'n letsel wat die liggaam bevuil". Dit is waarskynlik dat die streng Mosaïese afsonderingsmaatreëls vir tsara'at op ŉ ooreenkomstige Mesopotamiese gebruik, soos ook deur Herodotus by die Perse beskryf (hieronder), gebaseer kon gewees het.…”

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“…vermeld dat die Perse ŉ siekte met wit, skilferende velletsels, genaamd melaatsheid, ken, wat hanteer word deur die pasiënt volledig uit die gesonde gemeenskap te isoleer. 30 Grmek 31 wys op ŉ noue verbintenis tussen Mesopotamië en die vroeë Kanaänitiese volke, waar die Hebreërs bv. hul oorsprong in Chaldea gehad het.…”

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“…het gemeen dat lepra, lichen en skabies dikwels saam voorkom as gevolg van verwaarlosing. 41 Dit is waarskynlik dat ware melaatsheid aanvanklik deur ŉ volgeling van Erasistratus, Strato van Alexandrië (derde eeu v.C.) beskryf is as cacochymia.…”

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“…Geen suksesvolle behandeling was bekend nie. 42 Die toestand wat hierna "elefantiase" (of "elefas") genoem is, is ook in die 3de eeu v.C. deur Archagathus herken wat ŉ nuttige salf vir die sere voorgeskryf het.…”

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“…45 Dit is wel interessant dat Hippokrates se leucé deur Galenus later as ŉ meeloper van elefantiase beskou is, 46 en dat Aristoteles moontlik die "satiriase-element" van elefantiase ŉ eeu voor Strato beskryf het. 47 In 95 v.C. het Lucretius elephas morbus "ŉ eienaardige siekte uit Egipte" genoem.…”

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The origin and development of leprosy in antiquity

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Die ontstaan en ontwikkeling van melaatsheid in die antieke tydThe origin and development of leprosy in antiquity FRANÇOIS RETIEF Navorsingsgenoot, Universiteit van die Vrystaat fpr@shisas.com LOUISE CILLIERS the typical "leonine facies"), subcutaneous abscesses, destruction of nerves and other tissues, blindness, deafness and testicular atrophy (lepromatous leprosy). Medical writings of ancient civilisations show that a leprosy-like disease was recognised in Mesopotamia by the 2nd millennium BC, and possibly in India and China in the 1st millennium BC. It has been suggested that leprosy was brought to the Mediterranean region by Alexander the Great's armies, 4th century BC. Leprosy produces pathognomonic bone lesions, and the earliest osteo-archaeological evidence of leprosy was found in Egyptian skulls

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Historische und kulturelle Perspektiven auf das Altern

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2021

Handbuch Alter Und Altern

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The plasticity of ageing and the rediscovery of ground-state prevention

Blasimme

2021

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In this paper, I present an emerging explanatory framework about ageing and care. In particular, I focus on how, in contrast to most classical accounts of ageing, biomedicine today construes the ageing process as a modifiable trajectory. This framing turns ageing from a stage of inexorable decline into the focus of preventive strategies, harnessing the functional plasticity of the ageing organism. I illustrate this shift by focusing on studies of the demographic dynamics in human population, observations of ageing as an intraspecifically heterogenous phenotype, and the experimental manipulation of longevity, in both model organisms and humans. I suggest that such an explanatory framework about ageing creates the epistemological conditions for the rise of a peculiar form of prevention that does not aim to address a specific condition. Rather it seeks to stall the age-related accumulation of molecular damage and functional deficits, boosting individual resilience against age-related decline. I call this preventive paradigm “ground-state prevention.” While new, ground-state prevention bears conceptual resemblance to forms of medical wisdom prominent in classic Galenic medicine, as well as in the Renaissance period.

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On Ageing and Old Age

Cited by 6 publications

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The origin and development of leprosy in antiquity

The origin and development of leprosy in antiquity

Historische und kulturelle Perspektiven auf das Altern

The plasticity of ageing and the rediscovery of ground-state prevention

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