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Replaceable you : adventures in human anatomy / Mary Roach.
"From the New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz, a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy including difficult questions prompted by the human body's failings"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781324050629 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz comes a rollicking exploration of the quest to recreate the impossible complexities of human anatomy including difficult questions prompted by the human bodyâs failings. Illustrations. - WW Norton
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The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for whatâs availableâsculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today weâre attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet?Replaceable YouRoach dives in with her characteristic verve and infectious wit. Her travels take her to the OR at a legendary burn unit in Boston, a âsupercleanâ xeno-pigsty in China, and a stem cell âhair nurseryâ in the San Diego tech hub. She talks with researchers and surgeons, amputees and ostomates, printers of kidneys and designers of wearable organs. She spends time in a working iron lung from the 1950s, stays up all night with recovery techs as they disassemble and reassemble a tissue donor, and travels across Mongolia with the cataract surgeons of Orbis International.Replaceable You
