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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Krement͡sov, N. L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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505 0 |a 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. 
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