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The Language of Cells by Spencer Nadler (2001, Hardcover, Illustrated) 
The Language of Cells by Spencer Nadler (2001, Hardcover, Illustrated)

 
The Language of Cells by Spencer Nadler (2001, Hardcover, Illustrated)

Author: Spencer Nadler
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 2001-08-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375504168
ISBN-13: 9780375504167
Product ID: EPID1917509
Description: Nadler, a surgical pathologist and freelance writer, explores the connection between people and their cells in this collection of eight essays. The cells that Nadler examines under a microscope are given an often lethal personality, and ...
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Synopsis
Nadler, a surgical pathologist and freelance writer, explores the connection between people and their cells in this collection of eight essays. The cells that Nadler examines under a microscope are given an often lethal personality, and the stories of the people who confront them, in these cases of Alzheimer's disease, breast cancer, and sickle-cell anemia, are brought to a personal level.

Details
Publication Date:2001-08-01
Edition Description:Illustrated

Size
Length:196 pages
Height:9.8 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:18.4 oz

Publisher's Note
With this beautiful book, Spencer Nadler takes us into the remarkable world of cells–and into the lives of people whose behavior is affected by the cells seen under his microscope. After twenty-five years as a surgical pathologist, Nadler began to miss interacting with the people whose cells he studied. And so, he came out from behind his microscope and as a writer began to focus on people as well as on their cells, examining in this unusual book how a person’s life and spirit–and cells–coexist.

In the diminutive landscape of the microscope, a young patient’s sickle cells look like harmless apples and bananas, but the impact they have on him and his mother is acute. Under Nadler’microscope, normal breast cells look like pink hydrangeas to the remarkably spirited Hanna and her breast cancer cells like distorted hula-hoops. Among the other people we meet are an orchestra conductor who must choose between the rhythms of his music and those of his heart; an obese woman who must learn to get along with her fat cells as she copes with bariatric surgery; two people with early Alzheimer’s disease who fall in love and decide to live together despite the microscopic changes in their brains. In The Language of Cells, Spencer Nadler illuminates in lyrical prose “the quiet heroics of everyday people” as cells and the spirit contribute to the beauty of the human continuum.


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