The Song of the Cell : An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Hardback
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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**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.
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
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- Pages:496 pages
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- ISBN:9781847925978
