The Fountain of Youth
Cultural, scientific and ethical perspectives on a biomedical goal
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 May 2004
- ISBN 9780195170085
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 165x236x33 mm
- Weight 842 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line drawings and tables 0
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Short description:
If effective anti-ageing interventions were achieved, they would likely bring about profound alterations in the experiences of individual and collective life. What if modern scienctists could find the modern equivalent to the Fountain of Youth that Ponce de León sought? This book addresses this question by exploring the ramifications of possible anti-aging interventions on both individual and collective life. Through a series of essays, it examines the biomedical goal of prolongevity from cultural, scientific, religious and ethical perspectives, offering a sweeping view into the future of aging.
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A wide variety of ambitions and measures to slow, stop, and reverse phenomena associated with ageing have been part of human culture since early civilization. From alchemy to cell injections to dietary supplements, the list of techniques aimed at altering the processes of ageing continues to expand. Charlatans, quacks and entrepreneurs proffering anti-ageing products and practices have always exploited uniformed customers and instilled doubt and apprehension toward practices intended to extend life. Recently, however, the pursuit of longevity has developed into a respectable scientific activity. Many biologists are substantially funded by the government and the private sector to conduct research that they believe will lead to effective anti-ageing interventions.
While many embrace this quest for "prolongevity" - extended youth and long life - others fear its consequences. If effective anti-ageing interventions were achieved, they would likely bring about profound alterations in the experiences of individual and collective life. What if ageing could be decelerated to the extent that both average life expectancy and maximum life span would increase by forty percent? What if all humans could live to be centenarians, free of the chronic diseases and disabilities now commonly associated with old age? What if modern scientists could find the modern equivalent to the Fountain of Youth that Ponce de León sought?
This book addresses these questions by exploring the ramifications of possible anti-ageing interventions on both individual and collective life. Through a series of essays, it examines the biomedical goal of prolongevity from cultural, scientific, religious and ethical perspectives, offering a sweeping view into the future of ageing.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: The Perennial Quests for Extended and Eternal Life
The search for prolongevity: a continuous pursuit
The quest for immortality: visions and presentiments in science and literature
Decelerated ageing: should I drink from a Fountain of Youth?
A Jewish theology of death and the afterlife
In defence of immortality
Part II: The Science of Prolongevity
In search of the Holy Grail of senescence
The metabiology of life extension
Extending human longevity: a biological probability
Eat less, eat better, and live longer: does it work and is it worth it?: the role of diet in ageing and disease
Extending life: scientific prospects and political obstacles
An engineer's approach to developing real anti-ageing medicine
Part III: Ethical and Social Perspectives on Radical Life Extension
An unnatural process: why it is not inherently wrong to seek a cure for ageing
Longevity, identity and moral character: a feminist approach
L'Chaim and its limits: why not immortality?
Anti-ageing research and the limits of medicine
The social and justice implications of extending the human life span
The prolonged old, the long-lived society and the politics of age
Epilogue: extended life, eternal life: a Christian perspective
