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Becoming immortal : combining cloning and stem-cell therapy / Stanley Shostak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shostak, Stanley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human cloning.
- Stem cells--Research.
- Stem cells.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores how new organs might be engineered via cloning and reproductive technology to achieve human immortality.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Becoming Immortal
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- 1. Quo Vadis?
- WHY BECOME IMMORTAL?
- HAS LIFE CHANGED?
- "HELLO, DOLLY!" AND SALUTATIONS TO STEM CELLS
- WHY WE ARE NOT IMMORTAL OR WHAT IS LIFE ANYWAY?
- ACHIEVING IMMORTALITY THROUGH BIOTECHNOLOGY
- 2. Why Immortality Cannot Evolve
- WHERE DOES LONGEVITY COME FROM, AND WHY HAS EVOLUTION MADE US MORTAL RATHER THAN IMMORTAL?
- WHAT IS AN EVOLUTIONARY VIEW OF LONGEVITY, AND WHY ARE THE PROSPECTS SO BLEAK FOR ACHIEVING IMMORTALITY THROUGH EVOLUTION?
- AFTERWORD: IMMORTALITY TRIUMPHANT!
- 3. Why Immortality Cannot Develop
- DEVELOPMENT'S "WHO, WHERE, WHAT, WHEN, HOW, AND WHY?"
- DEVELOPMENT ACCORDING TO EMBRYOLOGISTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGISTS
- CONCLUSIONS
- 4. Life's Fundamental Feature: Devolution
- GETTING DOWN TO BASICS: LIFE BEGINS
- AN INTRODUCTION TO DEVOLUTION
- THE DEVOLUTION OF EUCARYA
- THE DEVOLUTION OF SEX
- THE DEVOLUTION OF METAZOA
- THE DEVOLUTION OF LIFE HISTORIES
- THE DEVOLUTION OF DEATH
- 5. Making Immortals: From Blastocyst to Generator
- TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT CLONING
- TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT STEM CELLS
- MAKING IMMORTALS
- MAKING GENERATORS
- Epilogue: Reprise and Prediction
- PROSPECTS FOR IMMORTALIZATION
- ADJUSTMENTS REQUIRED BY IMMORTALIZATION
- AT WHAT COST?
- Endotes
- NOTES TO PREFACE
- NOTES TO CHAPTER 1
- NOTES TO CHAPTER 2
- NOTES TO CHAPTER 4
- NOTES TO CHAPTER 5
- NOTES TO EPILOGUE
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791488416
- 0791488411
- 9780585465746
- 0585465746
- OCLC:
- 52872714
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