Like a Virgin
How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex
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2012
Oneworld Publications (Verlag)
978-1-85168-911-8 (ISBN)
Oneworld Publications (Verlag)
978-1-85168-911-8 (ISBN)
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A rising star of pop science investigates whether virgin birth might be possible in the near future - and what it will mean to the family
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.
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.
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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.8.2012 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 318 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-85168-911-7 / 1851689117 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-85168-911-8 / 9781851689118 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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