Audiobooks by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

"WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011 ‘Profound, eloquent and searching’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Essential reading’ INDEPENDENT ‘Masterly’ GUARDIAN ‘Extraordinary’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Riveting, audacious and now more urgent than ever in this vast update, The Emperor of All Maladies is a masterpiece. The story of cancer is a human one – a tale of chance discoveries, seized opportunities and human endurance. From innovative early surgeries to the Curies’ ultimately tragic work with radiation; from Sidney Farber’s hugely risky discovery of chemotherapy to the author’s treatment of his own patients, The Emperor of All Maladies is a profound and revelatory portrait of an enigmatic disease humans have lived with, and perished from, for more than five thousand years. In this updated edition of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s instant classic, four new chapters reveal what has changed in the universe of cancer in the years since the book was first published. With moving eloquence, he offers an insight into our evolving understanding of cancer’s causes and the emerging, revolutionary new treatments that might shape its future, including those that Mukherjee himself has helped devise. ‘This elegantly written overview allows us to look a once whispered-about illness squarely in the eye’ INDEPENDENT ‘The notion of 'popular science' doesn't come close to describing this achievement. It is literature’ OBSERVER"

Siddhartha Mukherjee (Author), Fred Sanders (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Il canto della cellula: Un'esplorazione della medicina e dell'uomo nuovo

"Nella seconda metà del Seicento, un solitario mercante di stoffe olandese, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, e un poliedrico quanto eterodosso scienziato inglese, Robert Hooke, guardando nei loro microscopi fecero una scoperta rivoluzionaria. Ossia che gli organismi viventi complessi sono aggregati di minuscole unità biologiche indipendenti e autoregolate. Un concetto radicale che modificò per sempre biologia e medicina. Il canto della cellula, dell'oncologo e ricercatore Siddhartha Mukherjee, è la storia di questa scoperta. Ma non solo. È un racconto scientifico ed epico al tempo stesso che arriva fino ai giorni nostri. Perché la rivoluzione della biologia cellulare è tuttora in corso e rappresenta uno dei progressi più significativi nel mondo della scienza. Attingendo ad articoli e testimonianze, colloqui con medici, biologi e pazienti, esperienze di laboratorio e fonti storiche, Mukherjee descrive l'anatomia, la fisiologia, il comportamento delle cellule, le loro interazioni, il modo in cui esse si aggregano, cooperano, creano tessuti, apparati e organi. E spiega cosa succede quando l'alterazione di questi «mattoni della vita» dà luogo a malattie gravi e potenzialmente letali. La nostra comprensione delle patologie cellulari ha inaugurato l'era della manipolazione terapeutica delle cellule, che ha reso possibili gli antibiotici e le trasfusioni di sangue, la fecondazione in vitro e i trapianti di midollo osseo, l'immunoterapia nella lotta contro il cancro e l'infusione di cellule staminali modificate nella cura del diabete. Ma oggi il futuro appare pieno di incognite: grazie alla selezione e all'editing genetici, la creazione di «nuovi esseri umani» rigenerati mediante l'ingegneria è tutt'altro che una remota possibilità, e il confine tra naturale e artificiale si fa sempre più incerto. Con rigore scientifico, un'empatia rara e una straordinaria capacità divulgativa, Mukherjee consegna al lettore un'erudita incursione nella storia della medicina e al contempo uno sguardo illuminante sul prossimo futuro. contributori LE Daniele Crasti"

Siddhartha Mukherjee (Author), Daniele Crasti (Narrator)

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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

"From Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, The Song of The Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human-rich with Siddhartha Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and all the patients whose lives may be saved by their work.In the late 1600s, a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, look down their handmade microscopes. What they see introduces a radical concept that sweeps through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences and altering both forever. It is 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 christens 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-all could be viewed as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies.In The Song of the Cell, Mukherjee tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. He seduces readers with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling. Told in six parts, laced with Mukherjee's own experience as a researcher, doctor, and prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate-a masterpiece."

Siddhartha Mukherjee (Author), Abhishek Sharma (Narrator)

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The Song of the Cell: How understanding the cell transformed science and our sense of what it means to live.

"Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the fundamental unit of life. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human. In the late 1600s, a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek look down their hand-made microscopes. What they see introduces a radical concept that sweeps through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering both forever. It is 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 christens 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 re-conceived as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies. In The Song of the Cell, Mukherjee tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. He seduces readers with writing so vivid, lucid and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling. Told in six parts, 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. © Siddhartha Mukherjee 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022"

Siddhartha Mukherjee (Author), Dennis Boutsikaris (Narrator)

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A Cancer in the Family: Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance

"Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first authoritative, go-to for people facing a genetic predisposition for cancer There are 13 million people with cancer in the United States, and it’s estimated that about 1.3 million of these cases are hereditary. Yet despite advanced training in cancer genetics and years of practicing medicine, Dr. Theo Ross was never certain whether the history of cancers in her family was simple bad luck or a sign that they were carriers of a cancer-causing genetic mutation. Then she was diagnosed with melanoma, and for someone with a dark complexion, melanoma made no sense. It turned out there was a genetic factor at work. Using her own family’s story, the latest science of cancer genetics, and her experience as a practicing physician, Ross shows listeners how to spot the patterns of inherited cancer, how to get tested for cancer-causing genes, and what to do if you have one. With a foreword by Siddartha Mukherjee, prize winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, this will be the first authoritative, go-to for people facing inherited cancer, this book empowers listeners to face their genetic heritage without fear and to make decisions that will keep them and their families healthy."

Siddhartha Mukherjee, Theodora Ross (Author), Marguerite Gavin (Narrator)

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The Gene: The story of the gene: our past, our future, ourselves.

"*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016* The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where a monk stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’. It intersects with Darwin’s theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms post-war biology. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and free will. This is a story driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds – from Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin, and the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes. This is an epic, moving history of a scientific idea coming to life, by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. But woven through The Gene, like a red line, is also an intimate history – the story of Mukherjee’s own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives. These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to “read” and “write” the human genome – unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children. Majestic in its ambition, and unflinching in its honesty, The Gene gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity – and a vision of both humanity’s past and future."

Siddhartha Mukherjee (Author), Dennis Boutsikaris (Narrator)

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Audiobooks by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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