Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of 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 2013Mukherjee is an assistant 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 Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and Cell. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters.
发表于2024-11-02
The Gene 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
An epic book about the past, present and future of gene research and application. Another dictionary-sized book. Filled with interesting stories and anecdotes about the history of gene research, it also raises serious ethical questions on its future: Can hu...
评分最初拿到《基因传》,以为这只是一本科普读物,但当我读过之后,发现这本书的故事性也是蛮强的,而且书中的每个故事,都跟我们有关系。开始我甚至觉得这本500多页的“大块头儿”很难攻克,但是翻过几页之后,我感觉这本书就像推理小说一样,逻辑清晰、结构严谨。作者每每遇到问...
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评分最初拿到《基因传》,以为这只是一本科普读物,但当我读过之后,发现这本书的故事性也是蛮强的,而且书中的每个故事,都跟我们有关系。开始我甚至觉得这本500多页的“大块头儿”很难攻克,但是翻过几页之后,我感觉这本书就像推理小说一样,逻辑清晰、结构严谨。作者每每遇到问...
图书标签: 科普 基因 生物 医学 英文原版 生物学 遗传学 biology
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to “read” and “write” our own genetic information?
The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.
Throughout the narrative, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—cuts like a bright, red line, reminding us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In superb prose and with an instinct for the dramatic scene, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.
As The New Yorker said of The Emperor of All Maladies, “It’s hard to think of many books for a general audience that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion…An extraordinary achievement.” Riveting, revelatory, and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, and an essential preparation for the moral complexity introduced by our ability to create or “write” the human genome, The Gene is a must-read for everyone concerned about the definition and future of humanity. This is the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master.
从门德尔植物园的豌豆到美国二十年代的优生学实践,从Paul Berg与学生们在Venus castle的饮酒对谈到遭遇失败的基因修改实践,Mukherjee的基因编年史用一种荡气回肠的方式自由的穿过自然科学研究与社会生活的隐形鸿沟。这在里,作为读者,我们看得见学者的坚韧,尊严,或者孤傲,也感受得到一门科学如何在各方力量的裹挟缠斗中寻求新的突破。
评分现代科学就是把东西打破,在组合起来的过程
评分在心理学的学习过程中,迟早会出现要不要重视生理学知识,重视到什么程度等之类的问题,初学者很有可能在阅读了普心和一些强调非生理的抽象概念(如心理咨询、知觉、人格等内容)入门书后认为没必要了解生理基础,然而这就是步入“空对空”陷阱的开始,也就是脱离生物物质基础去谈各种功能现象的错误。一切心理现象都建立在相应生理机制之上,虽然我们必须分清两者是不同层面的统一体,不能将前者简单还原成后者,但是亦不可分割两者,而且对于后者的理解只会更有帮助,而不是阻碍。基因遗传学对心理学中的很多重大问题有巨大意义,比如具有遗传性的认知障碍成因与对应策略。这本书介绍了基因的伊始到2015年间的历史,对生物学基础缺缺的读者完全友好,并在最后一章的最后做了较好的总结,对于批驳基因决定论、简单还原论等错误思想进行了有力科普。
评分从门德尔植物园的豌豆到美国二十年代的优生学实践,从Paul Berg与学生们在Venus castle的饮酒对谈到遭遇失败的基因修改实践,Mukherjee的基因编年史用一种荡气回肠的方式自由的穿过自然科学研究与社会生活的隐形鸿沟。这在里,作为读者,我们看得见学者的坚韧,尊严,或者孤傲,也感受得到一门科学如何在各方力量的裹挟缠斗中寻求新的突破。
评分现代科学就是把东西打破,在组合起来的过程
The Gene 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书