THE PRICE OF LIFE
IN SEARCH OF WHAT WE’RE WORTH
AND WHO DECIDES
A Radio 4 Book of the Week
‘Jaw-droppingly illuminating’ - inews
'Riveting . . . human stories that make the impersonal intelligible' - The Guardian
'Morbidly fascinating and essential’ – New Statesman ‘Excellent’– The Spectator
We say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice. In a world in love with data, it is possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on anything – including life itself. For philanthropists, judges, criminals, healthcare providers and government ministers, it’s just part of the job. In The Price of Life, Jenny Kleeman takes us on an adventure to meet some of the people who decide what we're worth.
sex robots & vegan meat
adventures at the frontier
of birth, food, sex and death
‘Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood’ – New Statesman
‘A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world’ – The Times
‘A moreish page-turner of a book’ – Herald
Imagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise, eat meat without killing animals, have babies without the need to bear them, and choose the time of our painless death. Life would be better, right?
All over the globe, people are trying to make this a reality. They want to use technology to solve the thorniest problems of humanity. But what if these ‘problems’ are the very things that make us human?
