This book examines the transformation of specialized biomedical knowledge into an influential cultural resource that facilitated the establishment of large specialized institutions, inspired numerous science-fiction stories, displaced religious beliefs, and gave the millennia-old dream of immortality new forms and new meanings in Bolshevik Russia.
This book examines the transformation of specialized biomedical knowledge into an influential cultural resource that facilitated the establishment of large specialized institutions, inspired numerous science-fiction stories, displaced religious beliefs, and gave the millennia-old dream of immortality new forms and new meanings in Bolshevik Russia.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Associate professor of history, University of Toronto Nikolai Krementsov is a Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. He is the author of several books, including Stalinist Science (1997), The Cure (2002), International Science between the World Wars (2005), and A Martian Stranded on Earth (2011), and numerous articles on the history of biomedical sciences in Russia and the Soviet Union.
Inhaltsangabe
Table of Contents Note on names, translations, and transliterations List of abbreviations Prologue: Science and Fiction 1. "The Ray of Life": Science in Revolutions 2. "Professor's Head": Isolated Organs 3. "Neither Life, Nor Death": Anabiosis 4. "The Billionaire's Last Will": Hormones and Institutions 5. "The Dog's Heart" and Monkey Glands 6. "Quo Vadimus?": Human Biology and Human Destiny Epilogue: An Unending Quest Acknowledgements Notes Index
Table of Contents Note on names, translations, and transliterations List of abbreviations Prologue: Science and Fiction 1. "The Ray of Life": Science in Revolutions 2. "Professor's Head": Isolated Organs 3. "Neither Life, Nor Death": Anabiosis 4. "The Billionaire's Last Will": Hormones and Institutions 5. "The Dog's Heart" and Monkey Glands 6. "Quo Vadimus?": Human Biology and Human Destiny Epilogue: An Unending Quest Acknowledgements Notes Index
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