What Is Regeneration?

by Jane Maienschein and Kate MacCord

Two historians and philosophers of science offer an essential primer on the meaning and limits of regeneration.

In punishment for his stealing fire, the Greek gods chained Prometheus to a rock, where every day an eagle plucked out his liver, and every night the liver regenerated. While Prometheus may be a figure of myth, scholars today ask whether ancient Greeks knew that the human liver does, in fact, have a special capacity to regenerate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226816567
• ISBN13: 9780226816562
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"