TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ball, Philip, 1962- author.
TI  - How to grow a human
SN  - 9780008331788
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London 
PB  - London William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - CLASS R - MEDICINE
KW  - Tissue engineering
KW  -  Popular works
KW  - Tissue culture
KW  - Organ culture
KW  - Cell transformation
KW  - Cytology
KW  - Developmental biology
KW  - Bioengineering
KW  - Self
KW  - Mind and body
KW  - Human evolution
N1  - adventures in who we are and how we are made; 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.--
N2  - 	 ; A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in cloning, gene-splicing and neural downloading. After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons - essentially mini-brains - Philip Ball begins to examine the concepts of identity and consciousness. Delving into humanity's deep evolutionary past to look at how complex creatures like us emerged from single-celled life, he offers a new perspective on how humans think about ourselves. In an age when we are increasingly encouraged to regard the 'self' as an abstract sequence of genetic information, or as a pattern of neural activity that might be 'downloaded' to a computer, I return us to the body - to flesh and blood - and anchor a conception of personhood in this unique and ephemeral mortal coil. How to Build a Human brings us back to ourselves - but in doing so, it challenges old preconceptions and values. It asks us to rethink how we exist in the world
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