THE SONG OF THE CELL: AN EXPLORATION OF MEDICINE AND THE NEW HUMAN
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
Synopsis
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 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".
Sample Player
| Narrator | Dennis Boutsikaris |
|---|---|
| Length | 16hrs |
| Catalogue No. | 16504 |
| Publisher | Vintage Digital; 2022 |
