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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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.
Media | Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug) |
Vrijgegeven | 3 november 2022 |
ISBN13 | 9781847925985 |
Uitgevers | Vintage Publishing |
Afmetingen | 234 × 153 × 41 mm · 625 g |
Taal en grammatica | Engels |
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