by Siddhartha Mukherjee · DEBATE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788499926520
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«El gen: una historia personal» is the popular science essay by Siddhartha Mukherjee, published by Debate in hardcover (704 pages, in Spanish).
The essay traces the history of the gene, from the early classical thinkers to current molecular biology. Combining science, history and his own family trajectory, Siddhartha Mukherjee explains milestones such as Mendel, Darwin, Watson and Franklin, and reflects on the implications of modifying genetic information and on what it means to be human in that horizon.
Original title: 'The Gene: An Intimate History'. Work from Debate's Science and Technology collection, translated by Joaquín Chamorro Mielke.
For readers of popular science, history of medicine and the social impact of genetics.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian physician, biologist, and author. His first book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010), won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and Guardian First Book Award, among other awards. It was listed in the "All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books" by Time magazine in 2011. He followed it with The Gene: An Intimate History (2016), which was among The New York Times 100 best books of 2016, and a finalist for the Wellcome Trust Prize and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He won the 2019 Lewis Thomas Prize.
