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How to grow a human : adventures in how we are made and who we are
- Title
- How to grow a human : adventures in how we are made and who we are / Philip Ball.
- Author
- Ball, Philip, 1962-
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFE 20-598 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 372 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Tissue engineering > Popular works
- Tissue culture > Popular works
- Organ culture > Popular works
- Cell transformation > Popular works
- Cytology > Popular works
- Developmental biology > Popular works
- Bioengineering > Popular works
- Bioengineering
- Cell transformation
- Cytology
- Developmental biology
- Organ culture
- Tissue culture
- Tissue engineering
- Genre/Form
- Popular works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Binding (note)
- Binding: includes original dust-jacket.
- Contents
- Introduction: My brain in a dish -- Chapter 1. Pieces of life : Cells past and present -- Chapter 2. Body building : 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 : Cancer, immunity, and our cellular ecosystem -- Chapter 4. Twists of 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-598
- ISBN
- 9780226654805
- 022665480X
- 9780226676173 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019008607
- 40029519614
- OCLC
- 1089278558
- Author
- Ball, Philip, 1962- author.
- Title
- How to grow a human : adventures in how we are made and who we are / Philip Ball.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Binding
- Copy 1. Binding: includes original dust-jacket. ICU
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029519614
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-598