What Makes a Person?
17 March 2023
Last update: 17/03/23 09:49
We spoke to Dr. Mark Hanson and Dr. Lucy Green, authors of, What Makes a Person? about their recent book and upcoming Cambridge Festival Event, 24 March, 7pm, at Cambridge University Press Book Shop.
Dr. Hanson and Dr. Green are respectively Professor and Associate Professor at the University of Southampton.
Why is your research important?
Because our early lives, for the first 1000 days from the moment of conception to age two, set the scene for our later lives – how easy we find it to stay healthy, what disease we may develop, and even what we may die of. This secret time in our lives shapes our bodies and our minds, even though we have no memories of it.
The first 1000 days from the moment of conception to age two, set the scene for our later lives
Dr. Hanson
Tell us about your upcoming Cambridge Festival event?
We’re excited to meet people attending the Cambridge book festival. We hope the audience will have lots of young people and parents ready to discuss our ideas. Knowing Cambridge, we expect some scientists and doctors too!
What inspired you to write the book What Makes a Person?
We know that most young people – the parents of the future – don’t know about the secrets of what makes the next generation. We wanted to tell them so that they can pass on the gift of the best start to life to their children.
Find out more about Dr. Hanson & Dr. Greens’ upcoming Cambridge Festival event and book your place here.
The Cambridge Festival
The Cambridge Festival, 17 March-2 April, is an interdisciplinary event spanning the sciences, arts, humanities, and social sciences.
The Cambridge University event showcases some of the world-leading research that is happening across Cambridge. The events are categorized by theme, Discovery, Power, Environment, Health, and Society, and are free and accessible to all.
Here at the Cambridge University Press, we are proud to showcase a selection of our inspiring authors at this year’s Festival. Each will present their fascinating research in an approachable, easy-to-digest format. Read more about our selection Cambridge Festival events here
About the authors
Mark Hanson is Professor of Cardiovascular Science at the University of Southampton, and his research specialises in how the conditions of our development in our mother’s womb influence our risk of diseases in later life.
Lucy Green is Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, and her specific interests are in the science of the first 1,000 days of our development and its impact on chances of lifelong health.
Their book What Makes a Person?, challenges ideas about individual control of our bodies and lifelong health. It offers surprising explanations based on little-known new evidence that can enable parents to give the gift of a good start to life and future health for the next generation.
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