Song of the Cell - An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Presenting revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, the author draws on his own experience as a researcher, doctor, and prolific reader to explore how the discovery of cells created a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulation of cells.

About the author

Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Song of the Cell, The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. In 2023, he was elected as a new member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters. Visit his website at: SiddharthaMukherjee.com.

Product details

• Authors: Siddhartha Mukherjee, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Publisher: Scribner USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2022
• EAN: 9781982117351
• ISBN: 978-1-982117-35-1
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history, Society and culture: general