Aging, biotechnology, and the future / edited by Catherine Y. Read, Robert C. Green, Michael A. Smyer.

Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

xxv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Reality check: what is genetic research on aging likely to produce, and what are the ethical and clinical implications of those advances? / Richard L. Sprott -- Meeting the challenges of a diverse aging society / Fernando A. Guerra -- Immortality through cloning? reproduction, regeneration, and the posthuman / George J. Annas -- The transhumanist movement: a flawed response to aging and its natural consequence / Thomas A. Shannon -- Stem cell research and intervention / Robert Lanza -- The ethical, legal, and social implications of antiaging technologies / Maxwell J. Mehlman --

Stem cells and aging: quality and quantity of life in an unjust world / Karen Lebacqz -- Centenarians and genetics / Thomas T. Perls -- What can we learn from centenarians? / Leonard W. Poon -- A developmental perspective on aging and genetic technology: a response to studies of centenarians / Diane Scott-Jones -- Genetic testing for Alzheimer disease: the REVEAL study / Catherine Y. Read ... [et al.] -- The implications of genetic testing for Alzheimer disease / Margaret Gatz and Jessica Brommelhoff -- Genetic susceptibility to Alzheimer disease / Ann C. Hurley ... [et al.] -- Psychological issues in genetic testing / J. Scott Roberts -- Genotype, phenotype, and primary care: why the new genetics technology is not ready for primary care / Toni P. Miles -- Genetics, aging, and primary care: ethical implications for clinicians / Pamela J. Grace -- Aging, genetics, and social justice / Lisa Sowle Cahill and Sarah Moses -- The ethics of aging: question of ends at the end of life / Laurie Zoloth -- A lonely new world--or me, myself, and I / Rosemarie Tong.

Includes bibliographical references and index.