| Extreme life extension: investing in cryonics for the long, long term. | |
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PMID: 20455144 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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This article explores American conceptualizations of finance, the future, the limits of biological time, and the possibilities of biotechnoscience through an investigation of the social world of cryonics-the freezing of the dead with the hope of future revival. I describe some of the cosmologies of life, death, time, and the management of the future that circulate within cryonics communities, and I draw out relationships between cryonics practices and discourses and more common forms of personal future management prevalent within American neoliberal capitalism. I also illustrate similarities and differences between cryonics and more mainstream biomedical technologies. In doing so, I argue that cryonics is one American manifestation of anxieties about aging, time, and the future. I investigate the impact of biotechnologies on self-making and biosociality, and argue that crafting of selves can be deeply entwined with practices of investment or hope in the future of biomedicine and technology. |
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Authors:
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Tiffany Romain |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Medical anthropology Volume: 29 ISSN: 1545-5882 ISO Abbreviation: Med Anthropol Publication Date: 2010 Apr |
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Created Date: 2010-05-10 Completed Date: 2010-08-17 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7707343 Medline TA: Med Anthropol Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 194-215 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. tromain@stanford.edu |
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Aging
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psychology* Anxiety Biotechnology / ethics, methods*, trends Cryopreservation / trends* Death Humans Time United States |
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