Fight Aging!

A number of popular books on the topic of healthy life extension and related issues have come out in the past few years, both for and against extending healthy human life span. More are due out soon as there is increasing public interest in this important topic. Here is a brief reading list top get you started:

• The Fight Over the Future : A Collection of SAGE Crossroads Debates That Examine the Implications of Aging-Related Research
• Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion
• The Immortal Cell: One Scientist's Quest to Solve the Mystery of Human Aging
• Ageless Quest: One Scientist's Search for Genes That Prolong Youth
• Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension
• The Fountain of Youth: Cultural, Scientific, and Ethical Perspectives on a Biomedical Goal

Don't forget to catch the Immortality Institute book of essays when it comes out later in the year:

• The Scientific Conquest of Death: Essays on Infinite Life Spans

Ray Kurzweil also has a book on radical life extension coming out later this year.