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Previous Volume 358:1312-1313 March 20, 2008 Number 12

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Fourth edition. Edited by Paola S. Timiras. 407 pp., illustrated. New York, Informa Healthcare, 2007. $229.95. ISBN 978-0-8493-7305-3.

It is no longer reasonable to present the physiology of development and aging in a single book. The latest edition of this book, which has undergone many updates and title changes since its original publication in 1972 as Developmental Physiology and Aging (New York: Macmillan), captures the remarkable acceleration of progress in the field and will ensure the status of this textbook as an important benchmark in research on aging.

The book is addressed to geriatricians as well as physiologists, which is important because much of what we now know has rendered many so-called deficits of the aging process amenable . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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