Song of the Cell An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of 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. He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times and The New Yorker. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters. Visit his website at: SiddharthaMukherjee.com<b>Brilliant ... medical magic ... written with compassionate warmth and humour</b>
Daily Telegraph
<b>Wonderfully ambitious...</b> Cell biology is complex and as big a topic as life itself; I'm not sure a writer could cover it better
The Times
If you are not already in awe of biology, <i>The Song of the Cell </i>might get you there. It is <b>a masterclass</b>
Guardian
<b>Vast, important ... optimistic</b>
Mail on Sunday
Some of the <b>writing </b>in <i>The Song of the Cell</i> is <b>so lovely that you can get caught up in its music</b>
New York Times
A <b>confident, timely</b> - and most importantly, biologically precise - exploration of what it means to be human
Observer
<b>Part mystery, part adventure story</b>, <i>The Song of the Cell</i> is <b>an irresistible foray into the frontiers of medical science</b> [and] a reminder of the power of human ingenuity that is likely to leave readers both enlightened and hopeful.
Jennifer Egan, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning A Visit from the Goon Squad
A <b>passionate, expert </b>guide ... Mukherjee's ambition has once again paid off, creating <b>an encyclopaedic exploration of how we got to this point</b> - and sketching out the questions we must ask about the future
Financial Times
<b>A remarkable achievement</b> - a fascinating and highly readable crash course on the complexities of cellular physiology and of life itself
New Statesman
For anyone who wants to understand the building blocks of their own bodies - which everyone surely should - this is <b>an informative and entertaining introduction</b>
Economist
All of us will get sick at some point. All of us will have loved ones who get sick.<b> To understand </b>what's happening in those moments - and<b> to feel optimistic </b>that things will get better -<b> it helps to know something about cells</b>, the building blocks of life. Mukherjee's latest book will give you that knowledge ... Mukherjee, who's both an oncologist and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, brings all of his skills to bear in <b>this fantastic book</b>
Bill Gates
Deeply researched, <i>The Song of the Cell </i>is <b>an extraordinary journey</b> through the history of discovery to the most innovative cellular medicine practiced today and the promise of what lies ahead.
- Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate Physiology or Medicine 2001,
<b>Audacious...mesmerizing</b>...reliably engaging... Mukherjee enthusiastically instructs and... delights - all the while hustling us across a preposterously vast and intricate landscape
Wall Street Journal
<b>An extraordinarily gifted storyteller</b>... The author's ideas about the near future of medicine are both convincing and inspiring. This is another winner from Mukherjee.
Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review*
A <b>lively, personal, detailed, often moving account</b> of the cell in medical history and its promise in the present
Heromag
A lively, thought-provoking book... Mukherjee comes across not only as <b>a brilliant researcher</b> but also as a <b>deeply empathetic</b> human being
Literary Review
<b>A masterclass in cell function that will leave you in awe of biology</b>
- Suzanne O'Sullivan, Guardian
<b>This complex portrait illuminates cells' roles</b> in immunity, reproduction, sentience, cognition, repair and rejuvenation
Nature
<b>One of the most admired doctors in the world</b>
The Times
<b>A <i>tour d'horizon </i>of cell theory...</b> part history lesson, part biology lesson and part reminder of how science itself actually proceeds
Economist, *Books of the Year*
**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2023**
A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
From the prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, The Song of the Cell tells the vivid, thrilling and suspenseful story of the fundamental unit of life.
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.
Both panoramic and intimate, this is Siddhartha Mukherjee's most spectacular book yet.