John Hunt Publishing - Zero Books - announces the new title
Advancing Conversations: Aubrey de Grey - advocate for an indefinite human lifespan Douglas Lain Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at progress. The biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as the world's pre-eminent longevity advocate, is nothing if not future oriented. De Grey is the founder of the SENS Research Foundation, an organization developing medical interventions to repair the damage the body does to itself over time. Stated more directly, Aubrey de Grey and his organization aims to defeat aging. In 2005 a panel of scientists and doctors from MIT, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Microsoft, and the Venter Institute participated in a contest to judge whether de Grey's "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" were worthy of debate and verification or whether these ideas were wrong on their face. The panel found that de Grey's proposals for intervening in the aging process, while speculative, often "ran parallel to existing research" and were not "demonstrably wrong." Author Bio Douglas Lain is the publisher of Zero Books. He is also a writer, blogger, and the podcaster behind Zero Squared. Online: Facebook, Author Website, Blog, Twitter Previous Titles In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World (9781597808392), Night Shade Books, 2015. Billy Moon (9780765376848), Tor Books, 2015. After the Saucers Landed (9781597808231), Night Shade Books, 2015. Promotional Plans Author website, blog. Zero Squared podcast. USP A conversation with the most prominent longevity researcher in the English-speaking world. The first book in a new Advancing Conversations series. Competing Books Ending Aging (0312367074), by Aubrey de Grey St. Martins, 2010 Categories SOCIAL SCIENCE(SOC013000) -> Gerontology(SOC013000) FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS(FAM005000) -> Aging(FAM005000) MEDICAL(MED032000) -> Geriatrics(MED032000)	Publication Date June 2016 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-78535-396-3 $9.95  |  £5.99 8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm 80PP e-book ISBN: 978-1-78535-397-0 $5.99  |  £3.99 Library of Congress 2015960676
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