Mortal Coil (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2008-05-01
Förlag
Yale University Press
Illustrationer
24 b&w illustrations
Dimensioner
223 x 150 x 34 mm
Vikt
640 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780300117783

Mortal Coil

A Short History of Living Longer

av David Boyd Haycock
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2008-05-01
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An obsession with perpetual youth may seem a particularly modern phenomenon, but it is a goal that western scientists and philosophers have aspired to (and worked towards) for the last four hundred years.Mortal Coil explores the medical, scientific and philosophical theories behind the quest for the prolongation of human life. It was a conundrum that intrigued Sir Francis Bacon and underpinned the scientific revolution; ideas of ultimate perfectibility, indefinite progress, and worldly rather than heavenly immortality, fed directly into the spirit of the Enlightenment and further into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In today's world of genetic research, cryonics and nanotechnology, we still seek the same elusive philosopher's stone.From Adam and Eve to human cloning and designer babies, seventeenth-century lifestyle guides to science fiction, Haycock's gripping story introduces an array of fascinating individuals - Rene Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Swift, Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud as well as a score of unknown figures. Full of extraordinary stories and valuable insights, this is a curious, witty and captivating exploration into our unceasing desire to live forever.
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." . . a breezy and well-read survey of thinking about the possibilities of extending human life . . . a poignant history of fears and follies, of hubris and hope, of science and common sense: necessary reading . . ." --Steven Shapin, "London Review of Books"--Steven Shapin "London Review of Books "

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David Haycock is Curator of Seventeenth-Century Imperial and Maritime Studies at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Previously a Wellcome Research Fellow in the History of Medicine at the London School of Economics, he is an established and prolific historian of culture and medicine.

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