Type :epub | 1004.85 KB | English | Eve Herold | St. Martin's Press

Description: Never before in the history of medicine has mankind faced such hope and peril as those of us poised to embrace the radical medical technologies of today.

TransHuman: Extending the Frontiers of Human Life and Longevity examines the medical technologies taking shape at the nexus of computing, microelectronics, engineering, nanotechnology, cellular and gene therapies, and robotics. These technologies will dramatically transform our lives and allow us to live for hundreds of years. Yet, with these blessings come complicated practical and ethical issues, some of which we can predict, but many we cannot.
TransHuman taps the minds of doctors, scientists, and engineers engaged in developing a host of new technologies while telling the stories of some of the patients courageously testing the radical new treatments about to come into the market.
TransHuman asks the difficult questions of the scientists and bioethicists who seek to...