GLPH385-Module 5 questions &
answers rated A+
1) Commercial and Clinical
2) Non-traditional technologies - correct answer ✔✔Anti-Aging Science
-What are two modern strategies for anti-aging science?
Commercial and clinical enterprises offer anti-aging products - correct answer ✔✔What are
Commercial and Clinical Strategies?
-Research and development efforts of biogerontologists- scientists who study the biology of
aging - correct answer ✔✔What are Non-Traditional Technologies?
-Needs to consider the morality of interfering with the natural process of aging as well as the
colourful history of anti-aging strategies
-Extracts from testicles, ovaries, or glands of animals as well as the variety of elixirs, ointments
and medications - correct answer ✔✔History of Anti-Aging Strategies
-What does the field of anti-aging research need to consider?
-What were some historic anti-aging strategies?
-Established in the 1960s and 1970s in Europe and served wealthy clients from Europe and Asia.
- correct answer ✔✔What is the modern anti-aging movement
,-Currently, these centers are in France, Belgium, other parts of Europe, Japan and other parts of
Asia/Pacific region and of course, North and South America - correct answer ✔✔Where are they
advanced anti-aging centers in the world?
-A subfield within gerontology that focuses on the biological processes of aging - correct answer
✔✔What is biogerontology?
1) Justice
2) Relationships
3) Meaning
4) Social Values - correct answer ✔✔Socio-Philosophical Implications of Longevity
-What are four basic issues associated with Longevity?
-In some African countries the average lifespan is 40 years old when in developed countries its
70-80. - correct answer ✔✔Justice
Since humans are social beings, meaningful relations with others are essential to living a human
life. Extension of biological age is only valuable if it extends our life as communal beings,
resulting in longer, meaningful relations - correct answer ✔✔Relationships
-Engangment in activities that give satisfaction and happiness result in a more meaningful life.
From this, Pijnenburg and Leget (2007) infer, "what we basically seek as human beings is not
more time to live, but meaningful experiences" - correct answer ✔✔Meaning
When we save a life, we postpone death. life-extending therapies are life-saving therapies and
must share whatever priority life saving has in your morality and in social values - correct
answer ✔✔Social Values
, -Must confront the question of whether these developments contribute to a more just world
-State that treatments that exist are not available to everyone raise questions of distributive
justice
-If immortality of increased life expectancy is good, it is doubtful ethics to deny palpable goods
to some people because we cannot provide them for all - correct answer ✔✔Justice
-What must new scientific developments recognize in terms of justice?
-What do Pijnenburg and Leget state?
-What does Harris state?
1) Unequal death
2) Distribution of Resources - correct answer ✔✔What are two fundamental questions relating
to integrity?
Given the problem of unequal death, can we morally afford to invest research to extend life? -
correct answer ✔✔Unequal Death
-Given that there are countries where there is a risk of dying at what other countries consider
"mid-life" (who could be saved by simple low-tech solutions), how do we justify pouring billions
of dollars into extending the lives of the oldest old and ignoring the needs of these people dying
young? - correct answer ✔✔Distribution of Resources
answers rated A+
1) Commercial and Clinical
2) Non-traditional technologies - correct answer ✔✔Anti-Aging Science
-What are two modern strategies for anti-aging science?
Commercial and clinical enterprises offer anti-aging products - correct answer ✔✔What are
Commercial and Clinical Strategies?
-Research and development efforts of biogerontologists- scientists who study the biology of
aging - correct answer ✔✔What are Non-Traditional Technologies?
-Needs to consider the morality of interfering with the natural process of aging as well as the
colourful history of anti-aging strategies
-Extracts from testicles, ovaries, or glands of animals as well as the variety of elixirs, ointments
and medications - correct answer ✔✔History of Anti-Aging Strategies
-What does the field of anti-aging research need to consider?
-What were some historic anti-aging strategies?
-Established in the 1960s and 1970s in Europe and served wealthy clients from Europe and Asia.
- correct answer ✔✔What is the modern anti-aging movement
,-Currently, these centers are in France, Belgium, other parts of Europe, Japan and other parts of
Asia/Pacific region and of course, North and South America - correct answer ✔✔Where are they
advanced anti-aging centers in the world?
-A subfield within gerontology that focuses on the biological processes of aging - correct answer
✔✔What is biogerontology?
1) Justice
2) Relationships
3) Meaning
4) Social Values - correct answer ✔✔Socio-Philosophical Implications of Longevity
-What are four basic issues associated with Longevity?
-In some African countries the average lifespan is 40 years old when in developed countries its
70-80. - correct answer ✔✔Justice
Since humans are social beings, meaningful relations with others are essential to living a human
life. Extension of biological age is only valuable if it extends our life as communal beings,
resulting in longer, meaningful relations - correct answer ✔✔Relationships
-Engangment in activities that give satisfaction and happiness result in a more meaningful life.
From this, Pijnenburg and Leget (2007) infer, "what we basically seek as human beings is not
more time to live, but meaningful experiences" - correct answer ✔✔Meaning
When we save a life, we postpone death. life-extending therapies are life-saving therapies and
must share whatever priority life saving has in your morality and in social values - correct
answer ✔✔Social Values
, -Must confront the question of whether these developments contribute to a more just world
-State that treatments that exist are not available to everyone raise questions of distributive
justice
-If immortality of increased life expectancy is good, it is doubtful ethics to deny palpable goods
to some people because we cannot provide them for all - correct answer ✔✔Justice
-What must new scientific developments recognize in terms of justice?
-What do Pijnenburg and Leget state?
-What does Harris state?
1) Unequal death
2) Distribution of Resources - correct answer ✔✔What are two fundamental questions relating
to integrity?
Given the problem of unequal death, can we morally afford to invest research to extend life? -
correct answer ✔✔Unequal Death
-Given that there are countries where there is a risk of dying at what other countries consider
"mid-life" (who could be saved by simple low-tech solutions), how do we justify pouring billions
of dollars into extending the lives of the oldest old and ignoring the needs of these people dying
young? - correct answer ✔✔Distribution of Resources
