{"product_id":"the-song-of-the-cell-an-exploration-of-medicine-and-the-new-human-9781982117351","title":"The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book and a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, \u003c\/i\u003ethe New York Public Library, and more!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Cell\u003c\/i\u003e, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e and the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Gene \u003c\/i\u003e\"blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner\" (\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMukherjee 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 \"\u003ci\u003ecells.\u003c\/i\u003e\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFilled with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling, \u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Cell\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Told in six parts, and laced with Mukherjee's own experience as a researcher, a doctor, and a prolific reader, \u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Cell\u003c\/i\u003e is both panoramic and intimate--a masterpiece on what it means to be human. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In an account both lyrical and capacious, Mukherjee takes us through an evolution of human understanding: from the seventeenth-century discovery that humans are made up of cells to our cutting-edge technologies for manipulating and deploying cells for therapeutic purposes\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Siddhartha Mukherjee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.30w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982117351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2022 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2022 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/29\/2022","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40756434894963,"sku":"9.78198E+12","price":32.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_54f2396a-4a38-4d4e-85f1-0fc1d4760809.jpg?v=1678802931","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-song-of-the-cell-an-exploration-of-medicine-and-the-new-human-9781982117351","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}