The Gene

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.

出版者:Scribner

作者:Siddhartha Mukherjee

页数:608

出版时间:2016-5-17

价格:USD 32.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781476733500

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.

读后感

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...  

By比尔·盖茨 梅琳达（Melinda）和我建立基金会的那一年，克林顿总统在白宫召见了一些世界上最伟大的科学家，并宣布了一个堪称人类历史上伟大里程碑的项目。两个互相竞争的项目（其中一个由美国国立卫生研究院领导，另一个由私人公司推动）完成了人类基因组图谱的第一版草图。...  

人类从来没有像今天这样无限接近生命的真相，当我们能够掌控和改造人类基因时，“人类”的概念也许将从根本上发生改变，后人类时代正在来临。《基因传》所讲的故事，与每个人都息息相关。 到底是什么力量或机制才能解释人类个体截然不同的命运与选择呢？人们在18 世纪之前曾经...  

By比尔·盖茨 梅琳达（Melinda）和我建立基金会的那一年，克林顿总统在白宫召见了一些世界上最伟大的科学家，并宣布了一个堪称人类历史上伟大里程碑的项目。两个互相竞争的项目（其中一个由美国国立卫生研究院领导，另一个由私人公司推动）完成了人类基因组图谱的第一版草图。...  

用户评价

现代科学就是把东西打破，在组合起来的过程

Have to finish this now or never.

花了半年多总算读完了…所有有关基因的历史 故事 研究 成果 失败等等都在这一本书里，作者时不时地穿插着写自己家庭的遗传病史很让人产生同感。用的单词好多都没见过…不知道是不是故意写的这么涩

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。

被作者这种博学又智慧的科学家深深迷倒！能把science写得优美严谨又有趣 读起来就不想停