# Medicine at the Extremes of Life

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Chris Whitty FRS
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/medicine-extremes-life)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Shakespeare defined seven ages of man, and in his time death was no stranger in all of these groups; Shakespeare died in his early 50's. Economic development and modern medicine have gradually squeezed life-threatening conditions to the extremes of life: the mewing infant in the developing world, and the seventh age in the developed world increasingly are where death and serious illness are concentrated.

## Lectures

1. [Health and the Seven Ages of Man: Serious ill health in the very old and the very young](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-medicine-extremes-life/93a585708584) (YouTube)
2. [The Shape of Things to Come: Future Demography Around the World](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-medicine-extremes-life/45c3e29cb35b) (YouTube)
3. [Suffer the Little Children: The Gradual Improvement in Child Health has Left Newborns Behind](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-medicine-extremes-life/02559effe7ae) (YouTube)
4. [Keeping the Heart Young in an Old Body](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-medicine-extremes-life/470692943dda) (YouTube)
5. [Stroke in the Elderly: Slowly Retreating](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-medicine-extremes-life/b6478ff9a111) (YouTube)
6. [Dementia: At Risk of Being Forgotten?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-medicine-extremes-life/f1d364edd217) (YouTube)