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.
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.
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最初拿到《基因傳》,以為這隻是一本科普讀物,但當我讀過之後,發現這本書的故事性也是蠻強的,而且書中的每個故事,都跟我們有關係。開始我甚至覺得這本500多頁的“大塊頭兒”很難攻剋,但是翻過幾頁之後,我感覺這本書就像推理小說一樣,邏輯清晰、結構嚴謹。作者每每遇到問...
評分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...
評分基因,是有遺傳效應DNA的片段,染色體是它的主要載體。一個微小的基因就可能改變一個人的一生,一傢人的命運,甚至掀起一個國傢、一個民族的血雨腥風。《基因傳:眾生之源》探究微觀的遺傳因子,追溯它的曆史,講述它的發展與未來。 作者悉達多·穆剋吉,印度裔美國醫生,科學...
評分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...
評分圖書標籤: 科普 基因 生物 醫學 英文原版 生物學 遺傳學 biology
被作者這種博學又智慧的科學傢深深迷倒!能把science寫得優美嚴謹又有趣 讀起來就不想停
評分現代科學就是把東西打破,在組閤起來的過程
評分Have to finish this now or never.
評分被作者這種博學又智慧的科學傢深深迷倒!能把science寫得優美嚴謹又有趣 讀起來就不想停
評分條理清楚,簡單明瞭,文筆也好。其中有幾段關於基因學發展史以及基因與人類曆史相互作用的文字真是怎麼讀都不厭。2018年的第一本書,非常值得。
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