How to grow a human 

 - London   London William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,  2019 
 - xi, 372 pages ; 24 cm 
<br/><br/> adventures in who we are and how we are made 
<br/><br/>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.-- 
<br/><br/> 	 ; 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780008331788 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>CLASS R - MEDICINE
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Tissue engineering -- Popular works<br/>Tissue culture -- Popular works<br/>Organ culture -- Popular works<br/>Cell transformation -- Popular works<br/>Cytology -- Popular works<br/>Developmental biology -- Popular works<br/>Bioengineering -- Popular works<br/>Self -- Popular works<br/>Mind and body -- Popular works<br/>Human evolution -- Popular works<br/>Bioengineering<br/>Cell transformation<br/>Cytology<br/>Developmental biology<br/>Human evolution<br/>Mind and body<br/>Organ culture<br/>Self<br/>Tissue culture<br/>Tissue engineering<br/>