Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost Thanks to Dr. Mukherjee’s remarkably clear and compelling /5(K). Reviewed in the United States on . Verified Purchase. Genetics is humanity and life writ large, and this book on the gene by physician and writer Siddhartha Mukherjee paints on a canvas as large as life itself. It deals with both the history of genetics and its applications in health and disease/5(K). · The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee review – ‘one of the most dangerous ideas in history’. From Nazi eugenics to biotech and the desire to make better versions of ourselves this vivid Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.
Siddhartha Mukherjee Author Biography. Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer and The Gene: An Intimate History, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of www.doorway.ru is the editor of Best Science Writing Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and. This month, PBS will premiere Ken Burns Presents the Gene: An Intimate History, a four-hour, two-part documentary based on The Gene to air April 7 and 14 on PBS stations nationwide. The series, like the book, weaves together science, history and stories of individuals and families, including Mukherjee's account of his own family and its. The Gene, An Intimate History by Mukherjee, Siddhartha Scribner, New York, Arthur L. Caplan, Anything else smacks of a version of Lamarckism that has few, if any, followers in contemporary genetics. Mukherjee advances a view of the gene that simply is not consistent with what biochemical and regulatory geneticists believe.
Reviewed in the United States on . Verified Purchase. Genetics is humanity and life writ large, and this book on the gene by physician and writer Siddhartha Mukherjee paints on a canvas as large as life itself. It deals with both the history of genetics and its applications in health and disease. Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost Thanks to Dr. Mukherjee’s remarkably clear and compelling prose, the reader has a fighting chance of arriving at the story of today’s genetic. The Gene: An Intimate History is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. It was published on by Scribner. [1] The book chronicles the history of the gene and genetic research, all the way from Aristotle to Crick, Watson and Franklin and then the 21st century scientists who mapped the human genome.
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