How to Build a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are. Philip Ball

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019

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      Source ISBN: 9780008331771

      Ebook Edition © May 2019 ISBN: 9780008331795

      Version: 2019-05-27

      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

PROLOGUE

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

       FOOTNOTES

       ENDNOTES

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       PICTURE CREDITS

       INDEX

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       ABOUT THE BOOK

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER