Overview
Explores how new organs might be engineered via cloning and reproductive technology to achieve human immortality.
Full Product Details
Author: Stanley Shostak
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.435kg
ISBN: 9780791454022
ISBN 10: 0791454029
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 11 April 2002
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College/higher education
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
...provides an interesting context for considering a wide range of moral and policy issues that have been raised in previous debates on biomedical technologies. - Science This is a bold and imaginative attempt to open up discussion on several levels-biological and ethical-about a possible development in human evolution, notably, that of our becoming immortal. Shostak lucidly and instructively explains why it is that complex cellular life has evolved in a mortal fashion and how developments in biotechnology and increases in our understanding of life will, at some point in the future, enable us to create immortal human beings. - Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick The author has a very interesting and compelling argument for immortality, whereby the provocative implication of this book is that, far from being a pipe-dream, human immortality is a biological possibility. It's a very informative presentation of the pertinent biology and history of biology, with some reference to the larger ethical and political implications of the subject. - Robert M. Johnson, Castleton College
"""...provides an interesting context for considering a wide range of moral and policy issues that have been raised in previous debates on biomedical technologies."" - Science ""This is a bold and imaginative attempt to open up discussion on several levels-biological and ethical-about a possible development in human evolution, notably, that of our becoming immortal. Shostak lucidly and instructively explains why it is that complex cellular life has evolved in a mortal fashion and how developments in biotechnology and increases in our understanding of life will, at some point in the future, enable us to create immortal human beings."" - Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick ""The author has a very interesting and compelling argument for immortality, whereby the provocative implication of this book is that, far from being a pipe-dream, human immortality is a biological possibility. It's a very informative presentation of the pertinent biology and history of biology, with some reference to the larger ethical and political implications of the subject."" - Robert M. Johnson, Castleton College"
Author Information
Stanley Shostak is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Embryology: An Introduction to Developmental Biology; Death of Life: The Legacy of Molecular Biology; and Evolution of Sameness and Difference: Perspectives on the Human Genome Project.
