Technologies of immortality: The brain on ice

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 391-413

  Parry, Bronwyn ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brains; Cryogenics; Cryonics; Immortality; Nanotechnology; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942530307     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2004.03.012     Document Type: Article

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