Borrowed Time explores where science is taking us and what issues are being raised from a psychological, philosophical and ethical perspective, through interviews with, and profiles of, key scientists in the field and the people who represent interesting and important aspects of aging.
Armstrong adeptly distills contemporary gerontology research ... Although a 'cure' for aging remains unlikely, Armstrong’s deft discussion of the topic is invigorating.
To her credit, Ms. Armstrong doesn’t pretend that there is any one answer to the question of why we age as we do. The science she presents is a grab bag of divergent theories, each championed by a scientific subspecialty ... One comes away from Borrowed Time not only with a range of wildly varying speculations on aging but also with a sense of the politics of scientific research, with its intellectual silos, its creativity-stifling insistence on consensus, its grubby scraping for grant money.
Armstrong uses an informal style to explain complicated research in lay-friendly terms. Her book will be of interest to everyone who hopes to live a long, healthy life.
