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Book by Nadler Spencer
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A surgical pathologist journeys into the microscopic world of cells as he explores their sometimes deadly influence on the lives of people affected by them, describing the implications of sickle cells on a young patient and his mother, the effects of breast cancer cells for Hanna, and the cells in the brain of a patient with Alzheimer's. 25,000 first printing.
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autiful 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;
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- VerlagRandom House USA Inc
- Erscheinungsdatum2001
- ISBN 10 0375504168
- ISBN 13 9780375504167
- EinbandTapa dura
- Auflage1
- Anzahl der Seiten7
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