The Song Of The Cell: An Exploration Of Medicine And The New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee | Hardcover | 576 pages
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Description : The Song of The Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer’s exploration of what it means to be human - rich with Siddhartha Mukherjee’s revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and all the patients whose lives may be saved by their work. In the late 1600's, a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, look down their handmade microscopes. What they see introduces a radical concept that sweeps through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences and altering both forever. It is the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves-hearts, blood, brains-are built from these compartments. Hooke christens them ‘cells’. The discovery of cells - and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem - announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer’s, dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID - all could be viewed as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies. In The Song of the Cell, Mukherjee tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. He seduces readers with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling. Told in six parts, laced with Mukherjee’s own experience as a researcher, doctor, and prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate - a masterpiece.
Product Details
Publisher : Penguin Allen Lane
Publication Year : 2022
Language : English
ISBN : 9780670092727
Categories : ANATOMY & HUMAN BODY , NON-FICTION , REFERENCE BOOKS , SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Product Dimension : 4.7 X 20.3 X 25.4 cm
Weight : 0.5 kgs
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