
The Song of the Cell
An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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Narrated by:
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Abhishek Sharma
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Written by:
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, The Song of The Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human—rich with Siddhartha Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and all the patients whose lives may be saved by their work.
In the late 1600s, a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, look down their handmade microscopes. What they see introduces a radical concept that sweeps through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences and altering both forever. It is 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 christens 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—all could be viewed 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 readers 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, doctor, and prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate-a masterpiece.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-12-23
good book, but narration requires editting
love the story, but narration has some random chat in hindi which should be edited and remove
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- Vichar4u
- 14-03-24
This is badly edited great book
I enjoyed the book irrespective of the errors in editing. At two points in the book the narrator actually gives instructions to the sound editors in Hindi and that has been left in the final version (atleast till March 24). The sudden cuts and stitch of the sound editors make the pauses for comma or end of sentence blur. The narrator per say is good. As an audible.com customer since 2004, I know there is a lot of work the Indian sound editors have to do for creating impeccable audio books. Also Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee and his editors use a lot of heavy or uncommon English words. This compounded with the technical stuff on human anatomy, chemistry and cellular science makes this book really unfit for use while running or moving around. This is not a book needs you to listen with attention, maybe stand at attention too given the editing.
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- Ronald
- 06-11-23
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The narrator, though looks technically proficient, sounded like sunglass wearing, robotic, human-hating, Agent Jones from the Matrix. Once you get this in your head, you can't unthink it.
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