The Gene

书名：The GeneAnIntimateHistory
作者：SiddharthaMukherjee
译者：
ISBN：9781476733500
出版社：Scribner
出版时间：2016-5-17
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：608
豆瓣评分： 8.9

书籍简介：

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to “read” and “write” our own genetic information? The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. Throughout the narrative, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—cuts like a bright, red line, reminding us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In superb prose and with an instinct for the dramatic scene, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. As The New Yorker said of The Emperor of All Maladies, “It’s hard to think of many books for a general audience that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion…An extraordinary achievement.” Riveting, revelatory, and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, and an essential preparation for the moral complexity introduced by our ability to create or “write” the human genome, The Gene is a must-read for everyone concerned about the definition and future of humanity. This is the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master.

作者简介：

Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and Cell. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters.

书友短评：

@ 綦 读起来还挺雾水的，基因到底是怎么work得讲得还是太浅显了，不过太深入可能更难读。人为的改变基因组真的触手可及么？就像当初制造atomic bomb一样，technologies needed are already fallen into place。这门如履薄冰的学科看着没那么magical了，比较tedious但可以decipher。随之而来的moral concern一堆，治疗疾病还是enhance human ability确实一线之隔，真的要mess with nature么？ @ sissi A nice book (tho a bit lengthy) written by a medical doctor (whose wife has also interesting background/work). Should a scientist do things ahead his time? @ 綦 The single copy of poetry we are tempted to encode with lasting rhythms for generations to recite – the question is what’s better poetry, in the grand scheme of all things? @ 生煎馒头 扣一星因为作者抹黑我国科学家（胚胎实验相关）。一印度人写的，家族有精神病史。通俗易懂，词汇量不大，有小幽默，总体是一本比较好的科普读物。

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