‘Can We Live Forever?’ addresses the modern debate about the Life Extension Project, the by-product of revolutionary developments (actual and predicted) in bio-medicine, transplantation, cosmetic surgery, genetic counselling, stem cell research, cryonics, cloning and so forth, which cumulatively promise to deliver eternal life—or at least ‘prolongevity’.
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1. Longevity and the Population Debate; 2. The Social Utopia of Human Perfection; 3. Ancient and Modern Techniques of Longevity; 4. The Political Economy of Ageing; 5. The Moral and Spiritual Character of Old Age; 6. Vulnerability and the Ethic of Care; 7. Towards a New Paradigm of Ageing; 8. The Aesthetics of Ageing; References; Index
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Bryan S. Turner is the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, USA.
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