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Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension Hardcover - 2003
by Stephen S. Hall
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An award-winning writer explores science's boldest frontier - extension of the human life span - with the researchers and entrepreneurs who are racing to create medicines that will allow us to live longer and better.
Aging, cancer, stem cells, cloning - the themes of Merchants of Immortality are the stuff of today's headlines, yet they reflect some of humankind's most ancient hopes and fears. Stephen S. Hall delves behind the headlines to reveal just how close scientists are to fulfilling hopes of longer, healthier lives. Merchants of Immortality tackles profound social questions: How close are we to cloning humans? Can stem cell therapies tame illnesses such as heart attacks, Parkinson's disease, and diabetes? How long might our children live?
Hall's account of life-extension research is as dramatic as it is authoritative. The story follows a close-knit but fractious band of scientists and entrepreneurs who work in the shadowy area between profit and the public good. Hall tracks the science of aging back to its father figure, the iconoclastic Leonard Hayflick, who was the first to show that cells age and whose epic legal battles with the federal government cleared the path for today's biotech visionaries. Chief among those is the charismatic Michael West, a former creationist who founded the first biotech company devoted to aging research. West has won both ardent admirers and committed foes in his relentless quest to promote stem cells, therapeutic cloning, and other technologies of "practical immortality." Merchants of Immortality breathes scintillating life into the most momentous science of our day, assesses the political and bioethical controversies it has spawned, and explores its potentially dramatic effect on the length and quality of our lives.
Aging, cancer, stem cells, cloning - the themes of Merchants of Immortality are the stuff of today's headlines, yet they reflect some of humankind's most ancient hopes and fears. Stephen S. Hall delves behind the headlines to reveal just how close scientists are to fulfilling hopes of longer, healthier lives. Merchants of Immortality tackles profound social questions: How close are we to cloning humans? Can stem cell therapies tame illnesses such as heart attacks, Parkinson's disease, and diabetes? How long might our children live?
Hall's account of life-extension research is as dramatic as it is authoritative. The story follows a close-knit but fractious band of scientists and entrepreneurs who work in the shadowy area between profit and the public good. Hall tracks the science of aging back to its father figure, the iconoclastic Leonard Hayflick, who was the first to show that cells age and whose epic legal battles with the federal government cleared the path for today's biotech visionaries. Chief among those is the charismatic Michael West, a former creationist who founded the first biotech company devoted to aging research. West has won both ardent admirers and committed foes in his relentless quest to promote stem cells, therapeutic cloning, and other technologies of "practical immortality." Merchants of Immortality breathes scintillating life into the most momentous science of our day, assesses the political and bioethical controversies it has spawned, and explores its potentially dramatic effect on the length and quality of our lives.
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THE CANISTERS STOOD in the corner of the garage, amid garbage cans and gardening tools, right next to Hayflick's champagne-colored Lexus.
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- Title Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension
- Author Stephen S. Hall
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Date June 18, 2003
- ISBN 9780618095247 / 0618095241
- Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.34 x 1.47 in (23.72 x 16.10 x 3.73 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Longevity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002192155
- Dewey Decimal Code 613.043
Media reviews
"A timely and engrossing account of the high-stakes science of life extension....This is top-drawer journalism." Publishers Weekly, Starred
"A carefully documented examination of how society deals with life-and-death matters." Kirkus Reviews, Starred
"An important survey of the entire landscape of the science aimed at extending human life....we all owe [Hall] a vote of thanks." --JoAnn C. Gutin Newsday
"A fascinating, accurate and accessible account of some of [the] contemporary efforts to combat aging." --Robert H. Binstock The New York Times
"[C]ompelling . . . Merchants of Immortality is a highly readable and important book." --Shannon Brownlee The Washington Post
"A carefully documented examination of how society deals with life-and-death matters." Kirkus Reviews, Starred
"An important survey of the entire landscape of the science aimed at extending human life....we all owe [Hall] a vote of thanks." --JoAnn C. Gutin Newsday
"A fascinating, accurate and accessible account of some of [the] contemporary efforts to combat aging." --Robert H. Binstock The New York Times
"[C]ompelling . . . Merchants of Immortality is a highly readable and important book." --Shannon Brownlee The Washington Post
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