The song of the cell : an exploration of medicine and the new human / Siddhartha Mukherjee.
"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, an exploration of medicine and 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 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. 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 you 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, a doctor, and a prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate--a masterpiece"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982117351
- ISBN: 1982117354
- Physical Description: xvii, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner edition
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-437) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prelude: "The elementary particles of organisms" -- Introduction: "We shall always return to the cell" -- Part one: Discovery -- Original cell: an invisible world -- Visible cell: "Fictitious stories about the little animals" -- Universal cell: "The smallest particle of this little world" -- Pathogenic cell: microbes, infections, and the antibiotic revolution -- Part two: The one and the many -- Organized cell: the interior anatomy of the cell -- Dividing cell: cellular reproduction and the birth of IVF -- Tampered cell: Lulu, Nana, and the transgressions of trust -- Developing cell: a cell becomes and organism -- Part three: Blood -- Restless cell: circles of blood -- Healing cell: platelets, clots, and a "modern epidemic" -- Guardian cell: neutrophils and their kampf against pathogens -- Defending cell: when a body meets a body -- Discerning cell: the subtle intelligence of the T cell -- Tolerant cell: the self, horror antitoxicus, and immunotherapy -- Part four: Knowledge -- Pandemic -- Part five: Organs -- Citizen cell: the benefits of belonging -- Contemplating cell: the many-minded neuron -- Orchestrating cell: homeostasis, fixity, and balance -- Part six: Rebirth -- Renewing cell: stem cells and the birth of transplantation -- Repairing cell: injury, decay, and constancy -- Selfish cell: the ecological equation and cancer -- Songs of the cell -- Epilogue: "Better versions of me".
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 571.6 MUK (Text) | 36015000520052 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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