UID:
almafu_9959231333802883
Format:
1 online resource (490 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-772970-3
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1-280-84101-X
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0-19-803804-6
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1-4294-3812-6
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
Through a series of essays this volume examines the biomedical goal of prolongevity from cultural, scientific, religious & ethical perspectives.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2004.
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The search for prolongevity : a contentious pursuit / Robert H. Binstock -- The quest for immortality : visions and presentiments in science and literature / Mark B. Adams -- Decelerated aging : should I drink from a fountain of youth? / Stephen G. Post -- A Jewish theology of death and the afterlife / Neil Gillman -- In defense of immortality / Carol G. Zaleski -- In search of the holy grail of senescence / S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes -- The metabiology of life extension / Michael R. Rose -- Extending human longevity : a biological probability / Robert Arking -- Eat less, eat better, and live longer : does it work and is it worth it? : the role of diet in aging / Gemma Casadesus ... [et al.] -- Extending life : scientific prospects and political obstacles / Richard A. Miller -- An engineer's approach to developing real anti-aging medicine -- Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey -- An unnatural process : why it is not inherently wrong to seek a cure for aging / Arthur L. Caplan -- Longevity, identity, and moral character : a feminist approach / Christine Overall -- L'chaim and its limits : why not immortality? / Leon R. Kass -- Anti-aging research and the limits of medicine / Eric T. Juengst -- The social and justice implications of extending the human life span / Audrey R. Chapman -- The prolonged old, the long-lived society, and the politics of age / Robert H. Binstock.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-517008-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195170085.001.0001
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