Aging, Biotechnology, and the Future

Catherine Y. Read, Ph.D., R.N., is an associate professor of adult health and associate dean of the Undergraduate Program at the Boston College School of Nursing. Robert C. Green, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of neurology, medicine, and epidemiology at the Boston University School of Medicine. Michael A. Smyer, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and director of the Center on Aging and Work at Boston College. He is the coeditor of Challenges of an Aging Society, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Preface
List of Contributors
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1. Reality check: What Is Genetic Research on Aging Likely to Produce, and What Are the Ethical and Clinical Implications of Those Advances?
Chapter 2. Meeting the Challenges of a Diverse Aging Society
Part II: Immortality
Chapter 3. Immortality Through cloning? Reproduction, Regeneration, and the Posthuman
Chapter 4. The Transhumanist Movement: A Flawed Response to Aging and Its Natural Consequence
Chapter 5. Stem cell Research and Intervention
Chapter 6. The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Antiaging Technologies
Chapter 7. Stem Cells and Aging: Quality and Quantity of Life in an Unjust World
Part III: Centenarians
Chapter 8. Centenarians and Genetics
Chapter 9. What Can We learn From Centenarians?
Chapter 10. A Developmental Perspective on Aging and Genetic Technology: A Response to Studies of Centenarians
Part IV: Genetic Testing
Chapter 11. Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease: The REVEAL Study
Chapter 12. The Implications of Genetic testing for Alzheimer Disease
Chapter 13. Genetic Susceptibility to Alzheimer Disease
Chapter 14. Psychological Issues in Genetic Testing
Chapter 15. Genotype, Phenotype, and Primary care: Why the New Genetics Technology Is Not Ready for Primary Care
Part V: Ethical and Social Perspectives
Chapter 16. Genetics, Aging, and Primary care: Ethical Implications for Clinicians
Chapter 17. Aging, Genetics, and Social Justice
Chapter 18. The Ethics of Aging: Question of Ends at the End of Life
Chapter 19. A Lonely New World—or Me, Myself, and I
Index