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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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=657907 |
Mục lục:
- 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.