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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a number one New York Times best seller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the fundamental unit of life. 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.
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 sweeps through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences and altering both forever. It is 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 christens 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 re-conceived 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 listeners 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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-12-2022
Fabulous
Amazing book. Challenging- a lot to learn. I had to repeat many chapters. But definitely worth the effort
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- Doug Tyler
- 19-08-2024
Fascinating information, superbly written.
The author shows an impressive mastery of writing, presenting complex information with clarity in a very enjoyable writing style.
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- Frank
- 20-11-2024
Epic journey - amazing
Brilliantly written and read
Easy to understand and awe inspiring journey into the history of human evolution and the development of knowledge in how human life has evolved
Makes you appreciate the human body and nature and the universe
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