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dc.contributor.author | Grech, Victor E. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Vassallo, Clare | - |
dc.contributor.author | Callus, Ivan | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-21T10:46:13Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-21T10:46:13Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Grech, V., Vassallo, C., & Callus, I. (2012). Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal : pharmacological immortality in science fiction. Journal of the Malta College of Pharmacy Practice, 18, 24-26. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/14127 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Immortality is a common feature in science-fiction (SF). This paper lists the ways in which the pharmacological induction of immortality has been depicted in SF, and the resultant outcomes. Immortality or extreme longevity are often melded with infertility in order to eliminate the overpopulation issues that would inevitably arise. This is only one way in which theoretical utopias which afford life extension become dystopias, cautionary tales that admonish against hubris. In this fashion, SF attempts to divine the paths that scientific discoveries or future events reveal to us, and the possible consequences that our decisions may have, whether taken advisedly and with due deliberation, or carelessly with no attempt to discern the consequences of our actions. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Malta College of Pharmacy Practice | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Pharmacy in literature | en_GB |
dc.subject | Immortality in literature | en_GB |
dc.subject | Science fiction | en_GB |
dc.title | Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal : pharmacological immortality in science fiction | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
Appears in Collections: | JMCPP, Issue 18 JMCPP, Issue 18 |
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