Description
| Product ID: | 9781847925978 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Song of the Cell |
| Subtitle: | An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human |
| Authors: | Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Subjects: | Popular science, Popular science, Cellular biology (cytology), Human biology, Cellular biology (cytology), Human biology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating **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. **Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2023** |
| Imprint Name: | The Bodley Head Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-11-03 |
