LIKE A VIRGIN: HOW SCIENCE IS REDESIGNING THE RULES OF SEX
Book ID/图书代码： 08136012B56914
English Summary/英文概要： Most cultures tell the tale of a maiden who gives birth untouched by a man, and in the wild there are plenty of creatures turkeys, Komodo dragons , and the Jesus Christ lizard (which even walks on water) that take various approaches to making babies without having sex. Soon, humans will have that option, too. In Like a Virgin, biologist and science writer Aarathi Prasad examines inconceivable ideas about conception, from a Renaissance recipe for creating a child (bury semen in manure for forty days) to the search for a real-life virgin mother in the 1950s. She then takes us to maverick, cutting-edge labs that are today inventing sex-less reproduction, from manufactured eggs to artificial wombs and beyond. Like a Virgin delivers an astonishing exploration of the mysteries of sex and evolution past, present, and future.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這個帶有些冒險的前沿生殖科學將永遠改變你對性的看法。生物學家兼科學作家Aarathi Prasad破解了關於懷孕的一種奇思妙想，從上世紀50年代，在“耶穌基督”創造下具有自我繁殖能力的蜥蜴(它走在水,太)尋找一個現實生活中的童貞母親開始。Prasad向我們傳輸了今天實驗室裡發明的一種相當於“非性選擇”的繁殖方法,從為男性研發一種類似於卵子生殖器官的電腦植入晶片到人造子宮。（Sandy）
Awards/获奖情况：It s thought-provoking stuff, accessibly written --The Bookseller Aarathi Prasad has travelled far into the mysterious land of human and animal conception and come back with extraordinary stories of chimaeras and parthenogens, of cannibal sharks in the womb, of pseudosperm and the prospect of birth without pregnancy. A fascinating book. --Matt Ridley, bestselling author of The Red Queen
It s game over for the testicle; the reign of bollocks is at an end. Prasad charts the high road to total male redundancy. In the future, girls will do it for themselves, boys those who are left will just be toys. Cheer or weep, but read this book. --Armand Marie Leroi, author of Mutants
Aarathi Prasad has travelled far into the mysterious land of human and animal conception and come back with extraordinary stories of chimaeras and parthenogens, of cannibal sharks in the womb, of pseudosperm and the prospect of birth without pregnancy. A fascinating book. --Matt Ridley, bestselling author of The Red Queen
It s game over for the testicle; the reign of bollocks is at an end. Prasad charts the high road to total male redundancy. In the future, girls will do it for themselves, boys those who are left will just be toys. Cheer or weep, but read this book. --Armand Marie Leroi, author of Mutants
About the Author/作者介绍： AARATHI PRASAD生於1975年，在倫敦帝國理工學院的技術和醫學從事研究癌症遺傳學，獲得過生物學博士學位。2005 年她搬出了實驗室，進入了科技政策和交流的世界，在其他一些組織從事工作，科學認知，一家面向公眾研討的，旨在促進循證科學的慈善團體。她對生殖醫學的興趣源於三件事：在校學生對一種蛋白質的學習研究，人工培植使老鼠受精；她在議會工作期間，通過了人獸嵌體幹細胞法案；實際上她是一位單身母親，有時AARATHI覺得不必先找到合適的男人，就可以再有一個孩子的事情簡直讓人覺得匪夷所思。2009年她在有線電視4頻道主持了一部具爭議性的紀錄片’混種更好嗎？’，同時她編輯和主持了由英國廣播公司四台的播出的上下集紀錄片 ’尋求單性生殖’。Aarathi Prasad is a biologist and science writer. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes, including as presenter of Channel 4 s controversial Is It Better to Be Mixed Race? and Brave New World with Stephen Hawking. Previously a cancer genetics researcher at Imperial College London, she subsequently moved out of the lab and into the worlds of science communication and policy, in areas including the passage in the UK Parliament of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. A single mother, Dr Prasad lives in London.
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