THE DISCUSSION OF AGING and anti-aging has heated up again, as posts like this one illustrate.

I recently published a review essay revolving around three books: Henry Aaron & William Schwartz (eds), Coping With Methuselah: The Impact of Molecular Biology on Medicine and Society, Stephen Post & Robert Binstock (eds), The Fountain of Youth: Cultural, Scientific, and Ethical Perspectives on a Biomedical Goal, and Robert Fogel’s The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 : Europe, America, and the Third World. It was published in the ABA’s law & technology journal, but I’ve put a copy online here.