![]() The Gene boasts anĮven more ambitious sweep of human endeavor than its predecessor: It's about nothing less than "the birth, growth, influence, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science. His new book will confirm him as our era's preeminent popular historian of medicine. The Gene: An Intimate History Paperback Large Print, Apby Siddhartha Mukherjee (Author) 6,784 ratings Editors' pick Best History See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 19.99 119 Used from 3.46 32 New from 13.43 6 Collectible from 7. It was only fair to aįuture partner that I should come with a letter of warning."Ī cancer physician and an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, Mukherjee comes across as spectacularly sane, especially for a superachiever: He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. ![]() Mukherjee writes frankly about how his family's misfortune has shadowed his own life: "When I met Sarah, now my wife, for the fourth or fifth time, I told her about the splintered minds of my cousin and two uncles. Siddhartha Mukherjee's new book, The Gene: An Intimate History (Scribner), gets intimate from page one, as the author reveals in graphic detail how his family has been scarred by recurrent mental illness-a collective trauma that has propelled his lifelong preoccupation with genetics and heritability. ![]()
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