Siddhartha Mukherjee

Selected as a Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Economist, Independent, Observer and Mail on Sunday THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 ‘Dramatic and precise... [A] thrilling and comprehensive account of what seems certain to be the most radical, controversial and, to borrow from the subtitle, intimate science of our time... He is a natural storyteller... A page-turner... Read this book and steel yourself for what comes next’ Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. This is an epic, moving history of a scientific idea coming to life, by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. But woven through The Gene, like a red line, is also an intimate history – the story of Mukherjee’s own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives. These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to “read” and “write” the human genome – unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children. The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where a monk stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’. It intersects with Darwin’s theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms post-war biology. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and free will. This is a story driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds – from Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin, and the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes. Majestic in its ambition, and unflinching in its honesty, The Gene gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity – and a vision of both humanity’s past and future.

An Intimate History

The Gene

An assessment of cancer addresses both the courageous battles against the disease and the misperceptions and hubris that have compromised modern understandings, providing coverage of such topics as ancient-world surgeries and the development of present-day treatments. Reprint. Best-selling winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Includes reading-group guide.

A Biography of Cancer

The Emperor of All Maladies

A comprehensive history of cancer -- one of the greatest enemies of medical progress -- and an insight into its effects and potential cures, by a leading expert on the illness.

From the author of “The Emperor of All Maladies”, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. 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.

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 reconceived 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 you 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.

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

The Song of the Cell

One of the world's premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine--and how understanding these principles can empower everyone.

Field Notes from an Uncertain Science

The Laws of Medicine

Hayli Kisisel Bir Hikaye

Eine sehr persönliche Geschichte

Das Gen

Nesta aclamada obra, Siddhartha Mukherjee, vencedor do prêmio Pulitzer de não ficção de 2011, combina ciência, história social e relatos pessoais para nos contar a extraordinária narrativa de uma das mais importantes descobertas dos tempos modernos. Ao investigar a hereditariedade, Mukherjee irá mostrar como a genética influencia nossas vidas, personalidades, identidades, destinos e escolhas. Ao longo do livro, Mukherjee explora também a própria origem e família, com seu trágico histórico de doenças mentais, nos mostrando como a ciência pode saltar rapidamente dos laboratórios para a vida. Um livro extraordinário sobre uma das mais importantes - e urgentes - questões da humanidade.

O gene

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Hannah Fry

Marc Kushner

Margaret Heffernan

Pico Iyer

Chip Kidd

Rob Knight

Zak Ebrahim

Stephen Petranek

Brendan Buhler

This wide-ranging boxed set of ten TED Books titles covers everything from architecture to business, space travel to love: The Terrorist’s Son, The Mathematics of Love, The Art of Stillness, The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings, Beyond Measure, Judge This, How We’ll Live on Mars, Why We Work, The Laws of Medicine, and Follow Your Gut. Provocative, intelligent, and forward-thinking, the first ten TED Books is perfect for any curious reader interested in technology, design, and creative thinking. The Terrorist’s Son is the story of the man who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing—and the son who chose a different path. The Mathematics of Love is a must-have for anyone who wants to better understand the patterns of their love life. In The Art of Stillness, travel writer Pico Iyer reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug. The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings captures the thoughtful intelligence and the sheer whimsy of the world’s most inspired and future-looking buildings. Beyond Measure reveals how organizations can make huge changes with surprisingly small steps and ultimately transform their company culture. Chip Kidd’s Judge This is a playful look at the importance of first impressions—in design and in life—exposing the often invisible beauty and betrayal in simple design choices ones most of us never even think to notice. In How We’ll Live on Mars award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek makes the case that living on Mars is an essential back-up plan for humanity and will happen far sooner than we imagine. In the groundbreaking Why We Work Barry Schwartz dispels a deeply ingrained myth: The reason we work is primarily to get a paycheck. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee reveals an urgent philosophy in The Laws of Medicine on the little-known principles that govern medicine. In Follow Your Gut scientist Rob Knight and journalist Brendan Buhler explain why the microscopic life inside us matters to everyone.

The Terrorist's Son, The Mathematics of Love, The Art of Stillness, The Future of Architecture, Beyond Measure, Judge This, How We'll Live on Mars, Why We Work, The Laws of Medicine, and Follow Your Gut

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Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2012, including works by such authors as Benjamin Hale, Elizabeth Kolbert, Natalie Angier, and Mark Bowden.

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013

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I Granta #7 om service gör nya och etablerade författare en översyn av ett ord som väcker känslor och skapar debatt. Lars Berge ringer till bredbandssupporten och granskar servicesamhället, debutanten Julia Stenroth skildrar det monotona arbetet på en svinfarm och Dimitris Alevras berättar om en nybliven nattklubbschef omgiven av spritfläckar och minnen. Ida Therén ritar upp June Mansfield Millers liv och Susanna Alakoski beskriver sjukvårdsupplysningens tjänster. Åke Smedberg skriver om komplexa relationer i en trött småstad och så undersöker Elin Cullhed maktbalansen i ett familjehem. Ur internationella Granta kommer bland annat en berättelse om ett butiksbiträde som gör allt för sin kund, en novell om en dubbelarbetande mamma och en historia om dödshjälp. Svenska Granta är del av ett internationellt nätverk med engelskspråkiga Granta som nav. Tidskriften grundades av studenter i Cambridge i slutet av 1800-talet. År 1979 fick den sin nuvarande form som en arena för nyskriven skönlitteratur och litterära reportage. I dag finns Grantaredaktioner i ett tiotal länder världen över, från Kina till Brasilien. www.albertbonniersforlag.se/granta Twitter/Instagram: GrantaSweden

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De keizer aller ziektes, een biografie van kanker, beschrijft de ziekte van de eerste gedocumenteerde gevallen duizenden jaren geleden tot de dag van vandaag en biedt zelfs een blik in de toekomst. Siddhartha Mukherjee, oncoloog, onderzoeker en gelauwerd auteur, onderzoekt kanker met de precisie van een celbioloog, het perspectief van een historicus en de hartstocht van een biograaf. Het resultaat: een indrukwekkend, helder en inzichtelijk relaas van een ziekte waar mensen al meer dan vijfduizend jaar mee leven en aan sterven. Het is een verhaal van vindingrijkheid, veerkracht en doorzettingsvermogen, maar ook van overmoed, paternalisme en onbegrip. Mukherjee doet verslag van decennia van ontdekkingen, tegenslagen en overwinningen tot en met de razendsnelle hoopvolle ontwikkelingen van de laatste tien jaar. Altijd staat bij hem de mens centraal, van de Perzische koningin Atossa, die 500 voor Chr. een slaaf haar borst liet afzetten, tot de eerste patiënten die in 1948 chemotherapie ondergingen, en zijn eigen leukemiepatiënt Carla, wier verhaal het boek draagt. Het boek leest als een literaire thriller, met kanker als hoofdpersoon. De keizer aller ziektes is een overrompelend en aangrijpend boek over een ziekte waar we, dankzij nieuwe inzichten in wat kanker is, wellicht mee kunnen leren leven in plaats van eraan te sterven.

Een biografie van kanker

De keizer aller ziektes

Die Geschichte einer der mächtigsten und gefährlichsten Ideen der Menschheit Mukherjee kreiert ein ambitioniertes und faszinierendes Panorama über den Versuch, das menschliche Genom zu entschlüsseln und in unser Erbgut einzugreifen. Es beginnt in einem augustinischen Kloster im Jahr 1856 und führt uns von Darwins Evolutionstheorie über die grausame Eugenik der Nationalsozialisten ins heute und darüber hinaus. Indem er seine eigene Familiengeschichte einwebt, die von tragischen psychischen Erkrankungen geprägt ist, führt Mukherjee uns vor Augen, dass die Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Labor einen immensen Einfluss auf unser echtes Leben haben, auf die Zukunft und die Identätit unserer Kinder. Das Gen ist das ultimative Buch über die Geschichte der Genetik und ermöglicht uns einen ehrlichen und erhellenden Blick in die Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Menschheit. »Mukherjee verpackt abstrakte, intellektuelle Ideen in emotionale Geschichten.« The Washington Post »Leicht verständlich und unterhaltsam, aber ohne grobe Vereinfachungen verknüpft er geschickt große Ereignisse der Wissenschaft mit seiner eigenen Familiengeschichte.« Deutschlandfunk

Eine sehr persönliche Geschichte | Der New York Times-Bestseller

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