The Gene: An Intimate History-基因：亲密的历史

作者：Mukherjee Siddhartha

简介：The Gene: An Intimate History《基因：亲密的历史》

中文简介：The Gene: An Intimate History《基因：亲密的历史》是一本由印度裔美国医生和肿瘤学家SiddharthaMukherjee写的书。这本书于2016年5月17日由斯克里布纳出版。这本书记录了基因和基因研究的历史，从亚里士多德到克里克、沃森和富兰克林，再到绘制人类基因组的21世纪科学家。这本书讨论了遗传学在决定人的福祉和特性方面的作用。它深入研究了悉达多穆克吉家族的个人遗传史，包括精神疾病。

英文简介：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?

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.