Armonía de Las Células: Una Exploración de la Medicina Y del Nuevo Ser Humano / The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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Armonía de Las Células: Una Exploración de la Medicina Y del Nuevo Ser Humano / The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Armonía de Las Células: Una Exploración de la Medicina Y del Nuevo Ser Humano / The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human


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Tras los éxitos de El emperador de todos los males y El gen, Siddhartha Mukherjee se adentra en la increíble y apasionante historia de la célula.

Bienvenidos a la apasionante historia de la célula. En este nuevo libro, el oncólogo y divulgador Siddhartha Mukherjee nos acompaña en un viaje fascinante a partir de uno de los mayores descubrimientos científicos de la historia: el hecho de que todos los organismos vivos complejos estén constituidos por unidades diminutas, autónomas y autorreguladas, esas que en el siglo XVII Robert Hooke vio a través de su microscopio y bautizó con el nombre que hoy conocemos.

Aquel hallazgo, seguido de una cada vez mejor comprensión de la fisiología celular cambió para siempre (y aún determina) la manera en que abordamos la medicina, la ciencia, la biología, las estructuras sociales y hasta la cultura. Una fractura de cadera, una parada cardiaca, el Alzheimer, el sida, un cáncer de pulmón... todo, absolutamente todo, puede explicarse como el resultado del funcionamiento anómalo de las células o de los ecosistemas que estas forman. Y también todo debería poder tratarse mediante su manipulación terapéutica. Esta revolución en el campo de la biología celular ya ha demostrado resultados transformadores y hoy se plantea como uno de los avances científicos que más vidas pueden salvar.

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«En un relato a la vez lírico y amplio, Mukherjee nos lleva a través de una historia de la comprensión humana: desde el descubrimiento en el siglo XVII de que estamos formados por células hasta la actual tecnología de vanguardia para manipular y desplegar células con fines terapéuticos». The New Yorker

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences!

Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!

In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Gene "blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner" (Oprah Daily).

Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down at their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering both forever. It was 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 christened them "cells."

The discovery of cells--and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem--announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer's dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID pneumonia--all could be reconceived as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies.

Filled with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling, The Song of the Cell tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Told in six parts, and laced with Mukherjee's own experience as a researcher, a doctor, and a prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate--a masterpiece on what it means to be human.

"In an account both lyrical and capacious, Mukherjee takes us through an evolution of human understanding: from the seventeenth-century discovery that humans are made up of cells to our cutting-edge technologies for manipulating and deploying cells for therapeutic purposes" (The New Yorker).
About the Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee es profesor de medicina en la Universidad de Columbia, y oncólogo en su hospital universitario. Ganador de una beca Rhodes, se graduó en la Universidad de Stanford y en la de Oxford, para licenciarse en Medicina en la Universidad de Harvard.

Ha publicado artículos en Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times y The New Republic y su libro El emperador de todos los males (Debate, 2014) fue ganador del Premio Pulitzer en la categoría de no ficción en el 2011.

Actualmente, vive en Nueva York con su esposa y sus hijas.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788419399465
  • Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
  • Publisher Imprint: Debate
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 624
  • Spine Width: 48 mm
  • Width: 157 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8419399469
  • Publisher Date: 19 Sep 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1047 gr


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