Title: Immortalities
Subtitle: Ethics, Technology, Law and Culture
Subject Classification:  Morals, Law and Legal Ethics, Society and Culture  
BIC Classification: HPQ, LA, JF
BISAC Classification: SOC036000, SOC037000, SOC002010
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Oct 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-948-6
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-949-3

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Description

This book provides an authoritative study of the ethical, legal and cultural dimensions of life extension. These range from alchemical medicine in Imperial China; special diets from the 1950s; 2020s nutraceuticals and 'young blood' programs; head transplants and cryogenics projects; visions of uploading a human mind to the cloud; and AI-generated avatars that allow friends/family to 'communicate' with the dead.

The book explores ethical aspects of immortality services (eg preying on the desperate, gullible or uninformed) and corresponding legal issues (eg the consequences of elites who no longer die). It contextualises that exploration by considering cultures, such as a faith in science and unconventional medicine, alongside fictional depictions such as Janacek's The Makropoulos Affair, Scott's The Hunger and Huxley's After Many A Summer.

Biography

Author(s):  Bruce Baer Arnold is an associate professor at the University of Canberra, Australia.

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