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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主要作者: Krement͡sov, N. L.
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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書本目錄:
  • 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.