Revolutionary experiments : the quest for immortality in Bolshevik science and fiction /

Krementsov examines a particular fascination with the dream of immortality and the place of science and fiction in its pursuit in Russia during roughly a decade that followed the country's political revolutions of 1917. It argues that contemporary scientific experiments aimed at the control ove...

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第一著者: Krement͡sov, N. L.
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
オンライン・アクセス:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=657907
目次:
  • Prologue: science and fiction
  • "The Ray of Life": science in revolutions
  • "Professor's Head": isolated organs
  • "Neither life, nor death": anabiosis
  • "The Billionaire's Last Will": hormones and institutions
  • "The Dog's Heart" and monkey glands
  • Quo vadimus?: human biology and human destiny
  • Epilogue: an unending quest.