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

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

Cells: unraveling medicine's past, shaping humanity's future.

If you've ever been captivated by the mysteries of life at its most fundamental level, Siddhartha Mukherjee's "The Song of The Cell" is a journey you won't want to miss. It's a beautifully written account that weaves history, science, and human stories into a rich tapestry, revealing our profound relationship with the tiny building blocks that make us who we are. It's not just for those with a passion for medicine or biology, but for anyone curious about the unfolding story of what it means, really means, to be human.

  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences (2023)
  • Chautauqua Prize (2023)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN: 9781847925985
Authors: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher: Bodley Head
Date of Publication: 2022-11-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Nature, History
Related Topics: Medicine, Medical, Popular Science, Health, Nature, Biology, Biology
Goodreads rating: 4.28
(rated by 13099 readers)

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From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the transformation of medicine through our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee’s revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer’s exploration of what it means to be human. 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
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Cells: unraveling medicine's past, shaping humanity's future.

If you've ever been captivated by the mysteries of life at its most fundamental level, Siddhartha Mukherjee's "The Song of The Cell" is a journey you won't want to miss. It's a beautifully written account that weaves history, science, and human stories into a rich tapestry, revealing our profound relationship with the tiny building blocks that make us who we are. It's not just for those with a passion for medicine or biology, but for anyone curious about the unfolding story of what it means, really means, to be human.

  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences (2023)
  • Chautauqua Prize (2023)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.