Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Song of the Cell and other works (4 books)

* Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Song of the Cell and other works (4 books)

SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE (b. 1970) is an Indian-born American oncologist and writer celebrated for his effort to demystify cancer. He has been described as part of a select group of doctor-writers (such as Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande) who have "transformed the public discourse on human health", and allowed a generation of readers a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of science and medicine. As of 2018, he is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology. His research concerns the physiology of cancer cells, immunological therapy for blood cancers, and the discovery of bone- and cartilage-forming stem cells in the vertebrate skeleton.

In THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES (2010), Mukherjee traced cancer from its earliest recorded history to its fate in the modern era of targeted therapy. The book was celebrated for its eloquent and moving portrayal of patients affected by the disease, particularly descriptions of how their determination to survive was fundamental to furthering the understanding of cancer. It won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, and Guardian First Book Award, among others.

Mukherjee's next major work, THE LAWS OF MEDICINE: FIELD NOTES FROM AN UNCERTAIN SCIENCE (2015), investigated the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine, and concluded that an understanding of those precepts can hearten patients as well as the medical community.

THE GENE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY (2016) provides a history of genetic research, but also delves into the personal genetic history of the author's family, including mental illness. The book discusses the power of genetics in determining people's health and attributes, but it also has a cautionary tone to not let genetic predispositions define fate, a mentality that led to the rise of eugenics in history and something he thinks lacks the nuance required to understand something as complex as human beings. The book was shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016, "the Nobel Prize of science writing", and the recipient of the 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Society Book Award in Science.

His most recent book, THE SONG OF THE CELL (2022), describes the history and medical mystery from the discovery of cell. 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. Narrated in metaphors, he tells the development of cell biology and how it became vital to modern medicine, from genetic engineering to immunotherapies.

For his contributions to science, Mukherjee was awarded the 2014 Padma Shri, one of India's highest civilian honours.


The following books are in ePUB format:

* The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner, 2010)
* The Gene: An Intimate History (Scribner, 2016)
* The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from An Uncertain Science (S&S, 2015)
* The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine & the New Human (Scribner, 2022)

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* The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013 (HMH, 2013)


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