This book examines the transformation of specialized biomedical knowledge into an influential cultural resource that facilitated the establishment of large specialized institutions, inspired numerous science-Fiction stories, displaced religious beliefs, and gave the millennia-old dream of Immortality new forms and new meanings in Bolshevik Russia..
This book examines the transformation of specialized biomedical knowledge into an influential cultural resource that facilitated the establishment of large specialized institutions, inspired numerous science-Fiction stories, displaced religious beliefs, and gave the millennia-old dream of Immortality new forms and new meanings in Bolshevik Russia.