ScienceBook · 2016
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Mukherjee runs from Aristotle through Mendel to Crick, Watson and Franklin and on to the genome projects, and threads his own family's history of mental illness through the science. The warning he keeps returning to is about letting a predisposition harden into a destiny, which is the road that produced eugenics. Published by Scribner on 17 May 2016.
Why you should read this
A history of genetics told partly through Mukherjee's own family's experience with mental illness, tracing the science from Mendel's peas to modern gene editing. It pairs technical explanation with personal narrative, in the same mode as his earlier book on cancer.
- Field
- Science
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 2016
- Themes
- GeneticsScienceContemporary
