1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBVAN0045068

Autore

Morelli, Gaetano

Titolo

7: Il diritto processuale civile internazionale / di Gaetano Morelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Padova, : Cedam, 1938

Descrizione fisica

X, 422 p. ; 25 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966462903321

Autore

Shostak Stanley

Titolo

Becoming immortal : combining cloning and stem-cell therapy / / Stanley Shostak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

9780791488416

0791488411

9780585465746

0585465746

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Disciplina

612.6

Soggetti

Human cloning

Stem cells - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Becoming Immortal -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. Quo Vadis? -- WHY BECOME IMMORTAL? -- HAS LIFE CHANGED? -- "HELLO, DOLLY!" AND SALUTATIONS TO STEM CELLS -- WHY WE ARE NOT IMMORTAL OR WHAT IS LIFE ANYWAY? -- ACHIEVING IMMORTALITY THROUGH BIOTECHNOLOGY -- 2. Why Immortality



Cannot Evolve -- WHERE DOES LONGEVITY COME FROM, AND WHY HAS EVOLUTION MADE US MORTAL RATHER THAN IMMORTAL? -- WHAT IS AN EVOLUTIONARY VIEW OF LONGEVITY, AND WHY ARE THE PROSPECTS SO BLEAK FOR ACHIEVING IMMORTALITY THROUGH EVOLUTION? -- AFTERWORD: IMMORTALITY TRIUMPHANT! -- 3. Why Immortality Cannot Develop -- DEVELOPMENT'S "WHO, WHERE, WHAT, WHEN, HOW, AND WHY?" -- DEVELOPMENT ACCORDING TO EMBRYOLOGISTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGISTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- 4. Life's Fundamental Feature: Devolution -- GETTING DOWN TO BASICS: LIFE BEGINS -- AN INTRODUCTION TO DEVOLUTION -- THE DEVOLUTION OF EUCARYA -- THE DEVOLUTION OF SEX -- THE DEVOLUTION OF METAZOA -- THE DEVOLUTION OF LIFE HISTORIES -- THE DEVOLUTION OF DEATH -- CONCLUSIONS -- 5. Making Immortals: From Blastocyst to Generator -- TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT CLONING -- TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT STEM CELLS -- MAKING IMMORTALS -- MAKING GENERATORS -- Epilogue: Reprise and Prediction -- PROSPECTS FOR IMMORTALIZATION -- ADJUSTMENTS REQUIRED BY IMMORTALIZATION -- AT WHAT COST? -- Endotes -- NOTES TO PREFACE -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 1 -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 2 -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 4 -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 5 -- NOTES TO EPILOGUE -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores how new organs might be engineered via cloning and reproductive technology to achieve human immortality.