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1896: George A. Gordon — Immortality and the New Theodicy; 1897: William James — Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine; 1898: Benjamin Ide Wheeler — Dionysos and Immortality; 1899: Josiah Royce — The Conception of Immortality; 1900: John Fiske — Life Everlasting; 1904: William Osler — Science and Immortality
If the fluid inherent in medicine be meant, man may use and eat a case full of dry drugs, or swallow some ten pills. But the effects of medicine are very strong. They cause great pain in the chest, but cannot feed a man. The meaning must certainly be that the fluid-eaters breathe, inhaling and exhaling, emitting the old air and taking in the new.
Unethical human experimentation is human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics.Such practices have included denying patients the right to informed consent, using pseudoscientific frameworks such as race science, and torturing people under the guise of research.
In his new book, “Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality,” Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan sifts through past and cutting-edge research ...
Physical immortality is a state of life that allows a person to avoid death and maintain conscious thought. It can mean the unending existence of a person from a physical source other than organic life, such as a computer.
Biological immortality (sometimes referred to as bio-indefinite mortality) is a state in which the rate of mortality from senescence (or aging) is stable or decreasing, thus decoupling it from chronological age. Various unicellular and multicellular species, including some vertebrates, achieve this state either throughout their existence or ...
Though the science journalist Michael Pollan called the book "groundbreaking," Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key is largely a rehash of others' work shaped into a Da Vinci Code–style thriller.
A widespread and major goal of most Taoists is to achieve immortality rather than enter the regular afterlife. Reaching this goal is not easy; various tasks must be met during an entire lifetime to be qualified to be immortal. The two different categories of requirements for immortality are internal alchemy [11] and external alchemy. [12]