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Science 28 February 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5611, p. 1323
DOI: 10.1126/science.1083135

Policy Forum

AGING:
Enhanced: Antiaging Research and the Need for Public Dialogue

Eric T. Juengst,* Robert H. Binstock, Maxwell J. Mehlman, Stephen G. Post

Biologists of aging and the agencies that support them are in active pursuit of interventions designed to compress, slow, or arrest the human aging process. The achievement of such interventions will have a profound impact on many social institutions, from individual families to the health care system. To ensure that everyone benefits equitably from that impact, anticipatory public dialogue and policy-making will be required.


The authors are in the Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: etj2{at}po.cwru.edu

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