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Revolutionary experiments : the quest for immortality in Bolshevik science and fiction / Nikolai Krementsov.
LIBRA PG3026.S348 K74 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krement︠s︡ov, N. L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature and science--Soviet Union.
- Literature and science.
- Biology--Soviet Union--Experiments.
- Biology.
- Immortality in literature.
- Biology in literature.
- Science fiction, Russian--20th century--History and criticism.
- Science fiction, Russian.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- XIII, 168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Prologue: science and fiction
- "The Ray of Life": science in revolutions
- "Professor's Head": isolated organs
- "Neither life, nor death": anabiosis
- "The Billionaire's Last Will": hormones and institutions
- "The Dog's Heart" and monkey glands
- Quo vadimus?: human biology and human destiny
- Epilogue: an unending quest.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199992980
- 0199992983
- OCLC:
- 858975562
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