An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By Siddhartha Mukherjee

Mukherjee opens in the late 1600s with Robert Hooke and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek peering through handmade microscopes and discovering that living beings are made of tiny, self-contained units—cells. This idea reframed medicine: organs and diseases (fractures, heart attacks, Alzheimer’s, AIDS, pneumonia, cancers, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID) become problems of cellular function and targets for cell-based therapies. Vivid and suspenseful, The Song of the Cell traces the discovery and understanding of cells and how that knowledge is forging new medical interventions, blending Mukherjee’s experience as researcher, doctor, and reader into a panoramic yet intimate exploration of what it means to be human.

Dimensions: 9.3”H x 6.1”W

496 pages. Paperback. Publisher: Scribner.