From The New Atlantis, Gilbert Meilaender (Valparaiso): Human Dignity and Public Bioethics; a review of Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines by Steve Talbott; a review of Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy by Theodore Dalrymple and The Cult of Pharmacology by Richard DeGrandpre. Ageing is a disease that can be cured: This is the radical claim that has made biomedical theorist Aubrey de Grey a popular hero of gerontology — and a maverick among the science community. Meet the man who wants us to live for 1,000 years. The Biocultural Turn: A review of The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Future to a Biocultural Present by Marquard Smith and Joanna Morra; The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution by Elisabeth A. Lloyd; and Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games by Edward Castronova.
