Chasing Captain America: How Advances in Science, Engineering, and Biotechnology Will Produce a Superhuman - Couverture souple

Zehr, E. Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1770411992 ISBN 13 : 9781770411999

Editeur : ECW Press,Canada, 2018

Synopsis

Could we create a real-life superhero by changing human biology itself?

The form and function of the human body, once entirely delimited by nature, are now fluid concepts thanks to recent advances in biomedical science and engineering. Professor, author, and comic book enthusiast E. Paul Zehr uses Marvel's Captain America -- an ordinary man turned into an extraordinary hero, thanks to a military science experiment -- as an entry-point to this brave new world of science, no longer limited to the realm of fiction. With our ever-expanding scientific and technological prowess, human biological adaptability is now in our fallible human hands. Thanks to the convergence of biology, engineering, and technology, we can now alter our abilities through surgery, pharmaceutical enhancement, technological fusion, and genetic engineering.

Written in an accessible manner, Chasing Captain America explores these areas and more, asking what the real limits of being human are, how far we should bend those limits, and how we may be forced to reshape human biology if we are to colonize planets like Mars.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paul Zehr, Ph.D. (neuroscience), is an award-winning science communicator, professor, author, and martial artist. He is the director of the Centre for Biomedical Research at the University of Victoria. His previous books -- Becoming Batman, Inventing Iron Man, and Project Superhero -- use superheroes as metaphors to explore the science of human potential. He writes for Psychology Todayand Scientific American, among other publications.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ECW Press,Canada
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1770411992
• ISBN 13: 9781770411999
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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• Personne responsable: non disponible