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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-294) and index.
• Confronting an alien technology — First sketch. From one cell to many — Making a difference — Laying down a body plan — Beginning a brain — Long division — Adding details. Fateful conversations — Inner journeys — Plumbing — Organizing organs — Taking up arms (and legs) — The Y and How — Wired — Refinement. Dying to be human — Making your mind up — A sense of proportion — Making friends and facing enemies — Maintenance mode — Perspectives.
• Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of identical twins not identical? How did my brain learn to learn? Why must I die? Biology’s deepest and most ancient challenges. They force us to confront a fundamental biological problem: how can something as large and complex as a human body organize itself from the simplicity of a fertilized egg? A convergence of ideas from embryology, genetics, physics, networks, and control theory has begun to provide real answers. Based on the central principle of ‘adaptive self-organization,’ it explains how the interactions of many cells, and of the tiny molecular machines that run them, can organize tissue structures vastly larger than themselves, correcting errors as they go along and creating new layers of complexity where there were none before. The story of human development from egg to adult, and why bodies age and fail, showing how our whole understanding of how we come to be has been transformed in recent years –Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Embryology, Human — Popular works.
• Human embryo — Development.
• Developmental biology.
• Human biology — Popular works.
• Embryonic Development — Popular Works.
• Developmental Biology — Popular Works.

Requested by Kurpiers, R.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The most popular English language anatomy atlas offers more than 540 color illustrations, with this new edition containing fifty-seven revised, two hundred relabeled, and seventeen new plates.
• Sect. 1. Head and neck — Sect. 2. Back and spinal cord — Sect. 3. Thorax — Sect. 4. Abdomen — Sect. 5. Pelvis and perineum — Sect. 6. Upper limb — Sect. 7. Lower limb — Sect. 8. Cross-sectional anatomy.

Subjects:

• Human anatomy — Atlases.
• Anatomy — Atlases.
• Anatomy — Atlases.
• Anatomy — Atlases.
• Anatomie humaine — Atlas.
• Atlases. fast (OCoLC)fst01423875

Requested by PA Dept.

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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects:

• Medicine — England — History — 19th century.
• Medical education — England — History — 19th century.
• Human dissection — Economic aspects — England — History — 19th century.
• Sale of organs, tissues, etc. — England — History — 19th century.
• Poor — England — Social conditions — 19th century.
• Dissection — history — England.
• Anatomy — education — England.
• Cadaver — England.
• Commodification — England.
• Dissection — legislation & jurisprudence — England.
• History, 19th Century — England.
• History, 20th Century — England.
• Vulnerable Populations — legislation & jurisprudence — England.

Requested by deVries, J

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Part of the series Palgrave pivot;Palgrave pivot.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-146) and index.
• Machine generated contents note: 1.Contingencies of the Unborn — Personhood, humanness and the unborn — Histories of the unborn — The importance of definitions — Concluding comments — 2.Imaging the Unborn — Obstetric ultrasound: from medical diagnostic tool to ̀baby pictures’ — Photojournalism and computer visualisations — The unborn as cultural artefacts — The politics of unborn imagery — Concluding comments — 3.The Unborn within the Self: Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy — Ambiguities of pregnancy: the two-in-one body — How pregnant women conceptualise the unborn — The role of imaging technologies in pregnant subjectivity — Attaching/detaching: the maternal/unborn ̀bond’ — Concluding comments — 4.Death, Disposal and the Unborn — Cultural variants in attitudes towards abortion — Women’s experiences of elective abortion — Decisions about disposal — Bioscientific research and definitions of the unborn — Mourning and memorialising unborn death –
• Contents note continued: Concluding comments — 5.The Endangered Unborn — Risk and the reproductive citizen — The ̀public pregnancy’: women’s experiences — The foetal citizen — Eugenics and the relative value of the unborn — Concluding comments — Final Thoughts.

Subjects:

• Embryo, Mammalian.
• Beginning of Human Life.
• Bioethical Issues.
• Fetus.
• Pregnant Women.
• Human embryo — Social aspects.
• Fetus — Social aspects.
• Social medicine.

Requested by Bloomberg, M.

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Part of the series Searchlight books. How does your body work?;Searchlight books. How does your body work?
Notes:

• Includes index.
• The body’s support — All about bones — Your skeleton — Connecting the bones.
• The skeletal system is made up of about two hundred and six bones. But what exactly is a bone? And how do bones help your body function? Explore the skeletal system in this engaging and informative book.

Subjects:

• Skeleton — Juvenile literature.

Requested by Cutinella, S