How to grow a human : adventures in how we are made and who we are
2019,
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, xi, 372 pages ;
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3854805
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| Publication information: |
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019. |
| Copyright: |
©2019 |
| ISBN: |
022665480X |
| ISBN: |
9780226654805 |
| Language: |
English |
| Record ID: |
3854805 |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
xi, 372 pages ; 24 cm |
| Date acquired: |
November 15, 2019
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| More creator details: |
Philip Ball. |
| Contents note: |
Introduction: My brain in a dish -- Chapter 1. Pieces of life : Cells past and present -- Chapter 2. What love has to do with it : Growing humans the old-fashioned way -- First Interlude. The human superorganism : How cells became communities -- Chapter 3. Immortal flesh : How tissues were grown outside the body -- Second Interlude. Heroes and villains : The microbiome, immunity and cancer -- Chapter 4. Twisting fate : How to reprogramme a cell -- Chapter 5. The spare parts factory : Making tissues and organs from reprogrammed cells -- Chapter 6. Flesh of my flesh : Questioning the future of sex and reproduction -- Chapter 7. Hideous progeny? The futures of growing humans -- Third Interlude. Philosophy of the lonely mind : Can a brain exist in a dish? -- Chapter 8. Return of the meatware : Coming to terms with our fleshy selves. |
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