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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9780008331788 |
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IISER Bpr |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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612.028 |
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BALL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Ball, Philip |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
How to grow a human : adventures in how we are made and who we are / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Philip Ball |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Chicago : |
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The University of Chicago Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xi, 372 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
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24 cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
<br/>In his most mind-bending book yet, Ball makes that disconcerting question the focus of a tour through what scientists can now do in cell biology and tissue culture. He shows how these technologies could lead to tailor-made replacement organs for when ours fail, to new medical advances for repairing damage and assisting conception, and to new ways of growing a human. For example, it might prove possible to turn skin cells not into neurons but into eggs and sperm, or even to turn oneself into the constituent cells of embryos. Such methods would also create new options for gene editing, with all the attendant moral dilemmas. Ball argues that such advances can therefore never be about just the science, because they come already surrounded by a host of social narratives, preconceptions, and prejudices. But beyond even that, these developments raise questions about identity and self, birth and death, and force us to ask how mutable the human body really is - and what forms it might take in years to come. |
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Tissue engineering -- Popular works. |
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Tissue culture -- Popular works. |
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Organ culture -- Popular works. |
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Books |
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