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Title: Immortality: : How Science Is Extending Your Life Span--and Changing The World by Ben Bova ISBN: 0-380-79318-0 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very readable and important book
Comment: It seems to me a great accomplishment that Ben Bova can maintain his conversational style while educating the public and provoking serious contemplation. Reading this book took me only 2 evenings, and it felt like having the author in my living room. I'm not a scientist. I didn't even know there was a difference between life expectancy and life span. Life expectancy has increased because of the percentage of children who now survive to adulthood thanks to medical advances. The human life span referred to in the Bible as threescore and ten (and sometimes fourscore) has really never changed. Until now, or almost now. We are on the brink of understanding cellular processes that cause what we know as "aging" to occur. The author explains in very clear terms the present theories of aging and the research efforts now underway. He also delves into all the moral quandaries involved...this was the area that prompted me to read the book. I wanted to know more about embryonic stem cell research and cloning, and why pursuing these technologies is or is not justified. I am Catholic! The author tries to be civil about religious viewpoints, but can barely manage. His viewpoints are always 100% secular and ammoral. Nevertheless, he presents the arguments of all, and makes his case is a logical manner. I do recommend this book for the nonscientist who wants to explore these issues and pick up a good deal of knowledge about how the research is being done.
Rating: 5
Summary: A most important and valuable book
Comment: How long would you like to live? 80 years? 100 years? 200 years? How about forever? You know, you just might.
Ben Bova has succeeded in gathering the most recent developments in medical science and technology together with the most credible extrapolations of current trends to write a terrific and much-needed book. He has studied the many diverse and often arcane fields of scientific investigation and somehow created a highly readable yet convincing depiction of where life extension research may lead us. He makes acceptable what used to seem unbelievable.
Immortality is not a long book and does not come across as scholarly or academic. It is clearly intended for the popular reader. And yet, I believe it is one of the most important and valuable books to be written within the last 20 years. If it is widely read and discussed, it will go a long way toward persuading the public that they'd better pay attention and begin preparing for the amazing ways in which our world is about to change.
NOTE: Ben Bova is not a medical doctor, but rather a Ph.D. of the liberal arts. The use of "Dr." before his name was probably his publisher's idea, intended to give the author more legitimacy on this topic. I find it disingenuous and needless. Ben Bova is a successful, respected writer of speculative fiction, and is probably as well qualified to write this book as any medical doctor.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very Informative....But needs a companion book
Comment: This is a good book to have if you are interested in stopping aging and living longer. And if you are not afraid of considering the possibility, the probability, of Immortality. But, for me, it does not go far enough. If you buy this book, you would also want to get a copy of THE IMMORTALIST MANIFESTO: Stay Young & Save the World. The author is Elixxir. And it is available on Amazon. It is the only book which gives us a new Immortalist philosophy, worldview, paradigm. Instead of merely hoping that the anti-aging life-extension breakthroughs will arrive in the nick of time to save your life, THE IMMORTALIST MANIFESTO tells what needs to be done to guarantee its timely arrival - for you and me. Bova shows it is scientifically feasible, probable. The Immortalist Manifesto shows how you can make sure it comes soon enough to save your life.
"Old Age and Death are no longer necessary or acceptable. We are either the last to grow old and die, or the first to stay young and live forever. We choose to be the first to stay young and live forever. Our goal is simple: kill Old Age and Death!" -- from The Immortalist Manifesto
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Title: The First Immortal by James Halperin ISBN: 0345421825 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 31 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Forever For All: Moral Philosophy, Cryonics, and the Scientific Prospects for Immortality by R. Michael Perry ISBN: 1581127243 Publisher: Universal Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory by Dharma Singh Khalsa, Cameron Stauth ISBN: 0446673730 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Genetic Nutritioneering by Jeffrey S. Bland, Sara H. Benum ISBN: 087983921X Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Neanderthin : Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body by Ray Audette, Troy Gilchrist, Raymond V. Audette, Michael R. Eades ISBN: 0312975910 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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