Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension » (Reprint)

STEPHEN S. HALL is the author of Merchants of Immortality and three other a

A historian of contemporary science, Hall looks at the intersection of the ancient fear of death with scientific claims that death can be staved off, perhaps indefinitely, perhaps as soon as within the lifetimes of the living. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The New York Times

This ultimate scientific quest -- this attack on the ravages of aging, potentially on mortality itself, and the lengths to which we are now taking it -- is what brings Hall here. The full tale spills out in a daunting number of directions. … It is a measure of Hall's skill as a science writer … that he manages to navigate through all this as lucidly as he does. — Atul Gawande