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Revolutionary experiments : the quest for immortality in Bolshevik science and fiction
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- Creator
- Nikolai Krementsov
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- xv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199992980, 0199992983
- OCLC
- ocn858975562
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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