Description |
1 online resource (165 p.) |
Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: the fashionable and freezing world of cryonics -- 1 Human cryoconservation -- 2 Cryonics in literature -- 3 The methodology -- 4 Strengths and weaknesses -- 5 Impact -- 2 Human cryopreservation -- 1 Cultural background -- 2 Medical and scientific approach -- 3 The legally dead man -- 4 Cryonics and law: an oxymoron? -- 5 The freezing trial: cryonics in the courtroom -- 6 Cryonics and financial issue: the cryonic trust -- 7 Cryopreservation agreements -- 3 The junk side of cryonics: the homo sacer |
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1 The global crises -- 2 The junk science -- 3 Bitcoin as a fund for cryonics -- 4 Junk finance: from (junk) bond to bitcoin -- 5 The junk humanity: the concept of homo sacer -- 6 From homo sacer to cryo-humanity -- 7 Cryonics and finance: the oxymoron of the future society -- 4 Cryothanasia as an opportunity during a scarcity of medical resources -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Euthanasia: a sweet death? -- 3 The challenges during Covid-19 -- 4 Cryothanasia -- 4.1 The meaning of cryothanasia -- 4.2 Cryothanasia as a medical treatment -- 4.3 Cryothanasia as a way to manage in the NHS |
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5 The cost of a world without death -- 6 The sale and purchase agreement of life -- 5 From digital immortality to human immortality -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Digital immortality -- 3 The human immortality: cryoconservation -- 3.1 Before cryoconservation and during cryoconservation: patient or consumer? -- 3.2 Who is the new being? -- 4 After resuscitation, which scenario for the future of humanity? -- 4.1 The law of cryoconservation -- 4.2 The hybrid individual -- 4.3 The wholly artificial being -- 5 The life in a post-singularity world -- Conclusions -- 1 Cryonics: the human 'bubble' |
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2 The cryo-trust -- 3 From health emergency to cryonics -- 4 Cryolaw: the cryopatient and the cryobeing -- Index |
Summary |
This book draws a subtle balance between bioethics and financial regulation. While the legal topic of human preservation or cryo-conservation may be regarded as belonging to the realm of medical law, the findings presented here suggest that its potential has strong economic implications |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Della Giustina, Camilla
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ISBN |
9781040002711 |
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1040002714 |
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