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The fountain of youth : cultural, scientific, and ethical perspectives on a biomedical goal / edited by Stephen G. Post, Robert H. Binstock

Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Physical Description
xxiv, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Post, Stephen Garrard, 1951- and Binstock, Robert H.

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Contents
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 and disease / 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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ISBN
0195170083 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-443) and indexes.
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