Chasing Captain America: How Advances in Science, Engineering, and Biotechnology Will Produce a Superhuman by Zehr, Paul
Chasing Captain America: How Advances in Science, Engineering, and Biotechnology Will Produce a Superhuman by Zehr, Paul

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

Could we create a real-life superhero by changing human biology itself? The form and function of the...
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SKU: 9781770411999
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Author: Paul Zehr
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Language: English
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Chasing Captain America: How Advances in Science, Engineering, and Biotechnology Will Produce a Superhuman by Zehr, Paul

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

$48.17
Chasing Captain America: How Advances in Science, Engineering, and Biotechnology Will Produce a Superhuman by Zehr, Paul

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

$48.17
Author: Paul Zehr
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Paul Zehr
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 04/17/2018
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781770411999


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/28/2018

About the Author
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.
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