The Song Of The Cell: An Exploration Of Medicine And The New 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 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.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee - Сиддхартха Мукерджи

Publisher:Bodley Head

Language:English

Publication Date:2022

Number of pages:496 pst

Format:Hardcover

Width:162 mm / 6,4'

Height:240 mm / 9,4'

Weight:760 g

Illustrations:Colored

ISBN:9781847925978