How to Grow a Human - Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are

Informationen zum Autor Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including H2O: A Biography of Water and The Music Instinct. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy, or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol, and he was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He lives in London. Klappentext The bestselling author of Critical Mass offers a cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human in the face of the latest technical developments and research in cell biology, tissue growth, organ regeneration, and treatments of cancer and dementia.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Ball
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.10.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9780226654805
• ISBN: 978-0-226-65480-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; Neurowissenschaften, Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, Science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects