Long for This World

The dream of immortality is as old as mankind. Today, a charismatic and eccentric group of scientists, medical researchers, entrepreneurs, and philosophers believe that it is not only possible, but attainable in our own time. Could they be right?

Jonathan Weiner's books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is the author of The Beak of the Finch; Time, Love, Memory; His Brother's Keeper; and other books. He lives in New York, where he teaches science writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

The Phoenix
Immortal Longings	p. 3
The Problem of Mortality	p. 24
Life and Death of a Cell	p. 45
Into the Nest of the Phoenix	p. 71
The Hydra
The Evolution of Aging	p. 87
The Garbage Catastrophe	p. 117
The Seven Deadly Things	p. 145
The Methuselah Wars	p. 175
The Weakest Link	p. 197
The Good Life
Long for This World	p. 223
The Trouble with Immortality	p. 246
The Everlasting Yes and No	p. 268
Acknowledgments	p. 283
Notes on Sources and Further Reading	p. 285
Index	p. 299
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