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The Song of the Cell : An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human / Siddhartha Mukherjee. - Wydanie 2. - London : The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage, 2022. - XVII, [1], 473 strony : fotografie ; 24 cm.

Autor

Mukherjee, Siddhartha (1970- ).

Forma i typ

Książki Poradniki i przewodniki

Przynależność kulturowa

Literatura amerykańska

Temat

Hooke, Robert (1635-1703) Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van (1632-1723) Wynalazki Urządzenia optyczne Mikroskop Historia Medycyna Komórka (biologia) Człowiek

Gatunek

Opracowanie Wydawnictwa popularne

Dziedzina i ujęcie

Medycyna i zdrowie Biologia Historia

Index na stronach 443-473.

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 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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