Open AccessBook Review: Finding the Fountain of Youth: The Science and Controversy behind Extending Life and Cheating Death
Author(s) -
Valerie Mittenberg
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.57.4.6718
Subject(s) - fountain , cheating , longevity , mythology , psychoanalysis , sociology , environmental ethics , psychology , history , gerontology , philosophy , social psychology , classics , medicine , archaeology
The untimely death of his wife inspired Aharon W. Zorea to write about the universal desire to extend life. Dr. Zorea had touched briefly on the topic of antiaging in Steroids (Greenwood, 2014), a reference book in which he outlined the medical and social debates surrounding the use of steroids to enhance human performance. In Finding the Fountain of Youth: The Science and Controversy behind Extending Life and Cheating Death, he traces the history of humankind’s obsession with youth and longevity, and he provides fascinating perspectives from myth, religion, philosophy, science, and sociology.