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Edited by Stephen G. Post and Robert H. Binstock. 463 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. $59.95. ISBN 0-19-517008-3.

Is it possible to increase human longevity dramatically? And if so, at what price? By prolonging an old age of chronic disease and disability, mental incompetence, functional decline, and dependency, perhaps even sacrificing, in a devil's bargain, what it means to be human?

Such are the weighty questions debated in The Fountain of Youth, which was inspired by a 2002 multidisciplinary conference. This timely book, consisting of 17 chapters, a highly commendable annotated bibliography, and a review of selected primary articles, was assembled to review the history of the quest for extended and eternal life, the contemporary science of prolongevity, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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