HOW TO GROW A HUMAN: ADVENTURES IN HOW WE ARE MADE AND WHO WE ARE
Book ID/图书代码： 00200018C00052
English Summary/英文概要： Philip Ball is an author with two brains.
He is participating in a project with Wellcome, whereby a small piece of tissue was cut from his arm, and grown in a laboratory into what researchers call a “mini-brain”: a small clump of neurons, organized in
ways that are discernibly “brain-like”. The aim is to enable cutting-edge research in cell biology, tissue growth, organ regeneration and, most
importantly, potential treatments of cancer and dementia.
But the implications of growing ’mini-brains’ becomes complicated, as these brain surrogates become larger
and more sophisticated. There is a suggestion that they could develop capabilities akin to human sentience,including being able to feel (to some degree) pleasure, pain or distress; being able to store and retrieve memories. Perhaps at some point even having some sense of agency or awareness of self. So what does it mean to be ‘sentient’? What or who ‘are’ we, except a larger collection of these cells and sequences of genetic information, and how might this affect our view of ourselves as individuals and a species?
Through a mixture of science, reportage and memoir, philosophy, literature and theology, Philip argues that emerging technologies of medicine and reproduction are not only creating remarkable new possibilities for making and sustaining people, but are posing profound shifts in our philosophical view of humans and humanity itself.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 菲利普·鲍尔(Philip Ball)是一位有着两个头脑的作家。
他正在参与一项Wellcome合作的项目，从他的手臂上切下一小块组织，然后在实验室里培育成研究人员所说的“迷你大脑”：一小块神经元，以类似“大脑”模式组织起来。其目的是使细胞生物学，器官再生，已经最为重要的是，癌症和痴呆症的潜在治疗方面的前沿研究成为可能。
但是，随着这些替代物变得更大和更为复杂时，这些初期成长的“迷你大脑”的含义就很难定义了。有一种说法是，他们可以开发出类似于人类的感知能力，包括能够在（某种程度上）感受到快乐、痛苦或悲伤；能够储存或恢复记忆。也许在某一时刻，甚至会有某种自我能动性和意识。那么，成为“有知觉者”意味着什么呢？除了更多的这些细胞和遗传信息序列之外，我们是什么或是是谁，这将如何影响我们对个人和物种的看法？
通过科学，报告文学和回忆录，哲学，文学和神学的结合，作者认为，新兴的医学和生殖技术，不仅为创造和维持人类创立了新的可能性，而且正在深刻地改变我们对人类和人类自身的哲学观点。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：Praise for Philip Ball
’Ball’s book towers above the competition with its erudition, balance, and attention to detail… This is the most accessible, comprehensive, and provocative investigation of the science of music – and its limits – yet to be written.’
Globe and Mail
About the Author/作者介绍： 菲利普·鲍尔(Philip Ball)经常在科学和大众媒体上发表文章，并在“自然”杂志社担任物理科学编辑多年。他的书涵盖了广泛的科学和文化现象PHILIP BALL writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor
for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK publication date: HarperCollins – March 2021
Rights sales for How to Grow a Human: UK (HarperCollins), US (Chicago UP)
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