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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

作者 Siddhartha Mukherjee
出版社 SIMON & SCHUSTER INC.
商品描述 The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human:《基因》、《萬病之王》作者、普立茲獎非文學類得主辛達塔.穆克吉2022新作!紐時暢銷作家辛達塔.

內容簡介

內容簡介 In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Gene “blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner” (Oprah Daily). Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering both forever. It was 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 christened 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 pneumonia—all could be reconceived as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies. Filled with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling, The Song of the Cell tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Told in six parts, and laced with Mukherjee’s own experience as a researcher, a doctor, and a prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate—a masterpiece on what it means to be human. “In an account 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).

作者介紹

作者介紹 Siddhartha MukherjeeSiddhartha 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 Magazine, and The New Yorker. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters. Visit his website at: SiddharthaMukherjee.com.

商品規格

書名 / The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
作者 / Siddhartha Mukherjee
簡介 / The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human:《基因》、《萬病之王》作者、普立茲獎非文學類得主辛達塔.穆克吉2022新作!紐時暢銷作家辛達塔.
出版社 / SIMON & SCHUSTER INC.
ISBN13 / 9781982117368
ISBN10 / 1982117362
EAN / 9781982117368
誠品26碼 / 2682341002004
頁數 / 496
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裝訂 / P:平裝
語言 / 3:英文
尺寸 / 21.3X14X3.2CM
級別 / N:無