Siddhartha Mukherjee

Gebundenes Buch

The Song of the Cell

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Beschreibung

**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2023**A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022From the prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, The Song of the Cell tells the vivid, thrilling and suspenseful story of the fundamental unit of life. In the late 1600s, a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, look down their hand-made microscopes. What they see introduces a radical concept that alters both biology and medicine forever. It is the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves, are built from these compartments. Hooke christens them 'cells'. The discovery of cells announced the birth of a new kind of medicine. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer's, AIDS, lung cancer - all could be re-conceived as the results of cells, or a cellular ecosystem, functioning abnormally. And all could be treated by therapeutic manipulations of cells. This revolution in cell biology is still in progress: it represents one of the most significant advances in science and medicine. Both panoramic and intimate, this is Siddhartha Mukherjee's most spectacular book yet.

Autor

Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an Associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times and The New Yorker. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters. Visit his website at: SiddharthaMukherjee.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9781847925978
• ISBN-10: 1847925979
• Artikelnr.: 64034744

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Praise for The Song of the Cell

"This expansive, immersive book posits a new way forward in medicine thanks to the cell: new ways of treating patients, new medicines to create, new ways of healing, and new ways of understanding ourselves." -Jaime Rochelle Herndon, Columbia Magazine

"In an account that's both lyrical and capacious, Mukherjee takes us through an evolution of human understanding: from the seventeenth-century discovery that humans are made up of cells to our cutting-edge technologies for manipulating and deploying cells for therapeutic purposes." -The New Yorker

"Erudite, panoramic... Mukherjee is an elegant stylist... [and] an assured and genial guide."

-Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"If you are not already in awe of biology, The Song of the Cell might get you there. It is a masterclass." -Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Guardian

"Audacious...mesmerizing...reliably engaging... Mukherjee enthusiastically instructs and... delights-all the while hustling us across a preposterously vast and intricate landscape." -David A Shaywitz, The Wall Street Journal

"Mukherjee is a passionate, expert guide... He weaves together charming histories of scientists, his own, sometimes painful, memories of patients and friends lost to illness, and the complex science of what makes cells tick." -Hannah Kuchler, The Financial Times

"For anyone who wants to understand the building blocks of their own bodies-which everyone surely should-this is an informative and entertaining introduction." -The Economist

"Mukherjee has found an especially roomy subject for his roving intelligence. . . . I was repeatedly dazzled by [Mukherjee's] pointillist scenes, the enthusiasm of his explanations, the immediacy of his metaphors." -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

"Mukherjee is such an engaging writer, alert to nanoscopic beauty and the potential deceptions of metaphor. . . . [The Song of the Cell is] written with compassionate warmth and humor, and the personal glimpses into an ordinary scientific life and the dedication that goes with it." -Steven Poole, The Telegraph

"The Song of the Cell blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner." -Oprah Daily