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The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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By the time antibiotics and vaccines became widely available, much or most of the decline in deaths from communicable diseases had already occurred. Describe two causes of this decline. 

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Briefly define the three main theories of aging, and explain how telomeres contribute to growing old. 

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What was a radical mastectomy, and what new theory about the spread of cancer caused it to be abandoned? Why would this new theory lead to such a change in practice? 

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