Description: This paper examines occupation, social class and living conditions in relation to mortality. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 33.

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 8 that talks about society's love of dirt and how it affects the life insurance industry.

Description: This article is a book review of Gerald T. Gruman's, A History of Ideas about the Prolongation of Life, which gives an historical view of the desire to extend the human life span.

Description: Article discusses the how the older population has been treated throughout history with low regard and often as a burden on society.

Description: It is to be hoped that the demonstration of these formulas, at least for an ordinary whole life policy, will be included in text books on life contingencies. Lidstone's paper is one of the classic papers in JIA analyzing the equity of the British uniform reversionary bonus system. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 19, No. 28.

Description: Actuaries have been indebted to the Statistical Bureau of the Metropolitan Life for studies in vital statistics associated with the names of Dublin, Lew and Spiegelman and a recent study by Quint and Cody is in this tradition. It is headed Preeminence and Mortality and was presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association last November. This article shares further perspectives about longevity, and the characteristics of people who experience long lives.

Description: This is a book review of 'The Biological Time-Bomb' by Gordon R. Taylor. The explosion inferred in the book's title is that of our advance in biological knowledge - man’s probe into nature: the origin of life, the deferment of death, tinkering with heredity, the transplantation of organs, etc.

Description: This section contains book reviews on profit sharing, life insurance, genetic risks and a select current bibliography. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974, Vol. 26, Pt. 1, No. 75 AB.

Description: Reflections on aging populations.

Description: This article discusses the trend of increasing life expectancy due to the progress of molecular genetics and the possible social consequences. From The Actuary, January 1971, Vol. 5, No. 1.