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

Name: The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Brand: Bodley Head
SKU: 9781847925978-V
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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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Number of Pages:: 496
Release Date:: 2022-11-03
Publication Date:: 2022-11-03
Publisher:: Bodley Head
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 1847925979
Weight:: 760 g
Height:: 23.6 cm
Width:: 16.4 cm
Thickness:: 4.6 cm

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