Matt Richtel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and bestselling writer of mysteries and thrillers. His books are fast-paced, character-centered stories in which things are not always as they seem. The backdrop for the books is the modern world. Technology is everywhere. Everything moves at lightning speed, from conspiracy, to love, business, and violence. Technology is our slave. Or has it become our dark master?
The books relate to Matt's journalism. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for a series of stories on distracted driving. The next year, he wrote an acclaimed series for the New York Times called "Your Brain On Computers" exploring how heavy technology use impacts our behavior and our brains.
Matt lives with his family in San Francisco. He writes from an office with a window that looks onto the former house of baseball legend Willie Mays. He -- Matt, not Willie -- is an avid tennis player, takes pride in making guacamole and coffee, and writes the occasional song.
发表于2024-06-17
An Elegant Defense 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
在这期间,杰森会带着他的姐夫保罗,和他一起开会和治疗。保罗是一个分子生物学博士,专利律师,一位具有科学背景的伟大倾听者。一天,他们坐在候诊室里,杰森开始说话:“你想知道癌症患者的感受吗?” “听听看。” “就像世界上所有人都住在美丽海滩上的塔希提村庄一样,我却住在独木...
评分我们一起想象这样一个狂欢节——一场完全开放的、来者不拒的盛典。而这就是你体内的生命正在经历的。数十亿的组织细胞、血细胞、蛋白质分子和入侵的微生物齐聚一堂,大多数都在它们自己的区域或器官内忙着处理关乎生存的工作。尽管忙碌,但一切都是那么高效、有序。血液在循环...
评分当医生的哥哥曾和我说过一句话: 人类的身体太精密了,复杂到一个小问题都可能会致命 人类的身体又太坚强了,其实大部分问题它自己都可以解决 这本书今年看来尤其应景,面对地球上的几十万未知病毒,人类的免疫系统一直在默默地守护 但是,平衡是一切的关键,这个“优雅的守卫...
评分Chapters 38 and 39 (see excerpts below) are the absolute highlights of this book on immune system, shedding light on what cancer is, why there is a great likelihood for people to get cancer eventually, how to think of the immune system, and how a major con...
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A grand tour of the human immune system and the secrets of health, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist
“One of those rare nonfiction books that transcends the genre. ... Extraordinary.” —Douglas Preston
A terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical marvel defies HIV. Two women with autoimmunity discover their own bodies have turned against them. Matt Richtel's An Elegant Defense uniquely entwines these intimate stories with science’s centuries-long quest to unlock the mysteries of sickness and health, and illuminates the immune system as never before.
The immune system is our body’s essential defense network, a guardian vigilantly fighting illness, healing wounds, maintaining order and balance, and keeping us alive. Its legion of microscopic foot soldiers—from T cells to “natural killers”—patrols our body, linked by a nearly instantaneous communications grid. It has been honed by evolution over millennia to face an almost infinite array of threats.
For all its astonishing complexity, however, the immune system can be easily compromised by fatigue, stress, toxins, advanced age, and poor nutrition—hallmarks of modern life—and even by excessive hygiene. Paradoxically, it is a fragile wonder weapon that can turn on our own bodies with startling results, leading today to epidemic levels of autoimmune disorders.
Richtel effortlessly guides readers on a scientific detective tale winding from the Black Plague to twentieth-century breakthroughs in vaccination and antibiotics, to the cutting-edge laboratories that are revolutionizing immunology—perhaps the most extraordinary and consequential medical story of our time. The foundation that Richtel builds makes accessible revelations about cancer immunotherapy, the microbiome, and autoimmune treatments that are changing millions of lives. An Elegant Defense also captures in vivid detail how these powerful therapies, along with our behavior and environment, interact with the immune system, often for the good but always on a razor’s edge that can throw this remarkable system out of balance.
Drawing on his groundbreaking reporting for the New York Times and based on extensive new interviews with dozens of world-renowned scientists, Matt Richtel has produced a landmark book, equally an investigation into the deepest riddles of survival and a profoundly human tale that is movingly brought to life through the eyes of his four main characters, each of whom illuminates an essential facet of our “elegant defense.”
记者写的书就是这样,故事讲的很生动很感人,科学的部分散乱又不深入。但总体上很值得一读。
评分第一本有声书
评分Everything is connected -- cancer, auto-immunity, HIV, common cold, allergy.. immune system is the river that runs through every aspect. seeks peace with the env. "self" - "other", "alien" - "ally".
评分第一次知道轻舞飞扬得的是免疫系统疾病。。。
评分人体好神奇,病毒入侵,健康细胞就会release interferon,interferon的副作用就是让你精疲力竭,你的身体就鼓励自己要休息,然后这样就会增强防御能力。反正记住everything's connected.该吃吃该睡睡,身体最重要嗷~
An Elegant Defense 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书