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David Boyd Haycock: Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer

Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008, 320 pp., Cloth $30.00, paper $22.00

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Notes

  1. Stolberg (1999).

  2. The essential text, as Haycock acknowledges, is Gruman (1966); but see also Thane (2005).

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Ottaway, S.R. David Boyd Haycock: Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer. Medicine Studies 1, 297–299 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12376-009-0022-8

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