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An edition of The Gene (2016)

The Gene

An Intimate History

First Scribner trade paperback edition (1)

by and

  • ★★★★ 4.05 ·
  • 20 Ratings
  • 178 Want to read
  • 11 Currently reading
  • 28 Have read

Brilliantly interweaving science, social history, and the story of his own family, Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee explains the science of genetics and confronts the extra- ordinary influence of heredity on our lives. With superb prose and 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, and all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first-century innovators who are mapping the human genome. The Gene is also, crucially, a preparation for the moral complexity intro- duced by our ability to create or "write" a genome, and thus determine human fate. Riveting, majestic, revelatory, it is a must-read for everyone concerned about the definition and future of humanity.
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genetics, history, heredity, genes, family, medical ethics, health, abortion, prenatal tests, AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, ADA deficiency, ADA gene mutations, ADCY5, addiction, adenine, adenosine metabolism, adenovirus, adoption, Advisory Committee on Uranium, aging, Aktion T4 program, alcoholism, alleles, alpha interferon, Genetic disorders, Herencia (Bilogía), Genética médica, Medical genetics, Human genetics, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2016-06-05, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Large type books, MEDICAL, Genetik, Heredity, Genes, Family, Health, Genetics, History, Medical ethics, Human genetics -- History -- Popular works, Human genome -- Popular works, Human genome, Genetics -- history, Popular Science, Popular Science and Mathematics, Popular works
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Siddhartha Mukherjee, Carrie Buck (1906-1983), Mark Adams, Aeschylus, Louis Agassiz, Prince Leopold Duke of Albany, Alexandra czarina of Russia, Princess Alice, Vincent Allfrey, David Allis
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Calcutta, Delhi

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Trade Paperback
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xi, 594p.
Number of pages
594

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Open Library
OL26414526M
Internet Archive
geneintimatehist0000mukh_t2d2
ISBN 10
147673352X
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9781476733524
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2015039962
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The Gene: An Intimate History is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. It was published on 17 May 2016 by Scribner. 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. The book discusses the power of genetics in determining people's well-being and traits. It delves into the personal genetic history of Siddhartha Mukherjee's family, including mental illness. However, it is also a cautionary message toward not letting genetic predispositions define a person or their fate, a mentality that the author says led to the rise of eugenics in history.

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In the winter of 2012, I traveled from Delhi to Calcutta to visit my cousin Moni.
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