Revolutionary experiments : the quest for immortality in Bolshevik science and fiction / Nikolai Krementsov.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

xv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Prologue: science and fiction -- "The Ray of Life": science in revolutions -- "Professor's Head": isolated organs -- "Neither life, nor death": anabiosis -- "The Billionaire's Last Will": hormones and institutions -- "The Dog's Heart" and monkey glands -- Quo vadimus?: human biology and human destiny -- Epilogue: an unending quest.

Includes bibliographical references and index.