Language of Cells

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Language of Cells

A Doctor and His Patients

Author: Spencer Nadler

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Language: English

Published by: Vintage

Published on: 18th December 2007

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 229 Kb

ISBN: 9780307428844


About the Author

As a surgical pathologist for more than twenty-five years, Spencer Nadler was not content with the distance between his lab and the patient. Meeting with those whose diseased cells he has diagnosed, he offers them a rare understanding.

Hanna Baylan is a woman as determined as he is to confront the cancer cells biopsied from her breast. Comille, a young boy with Sickle Cell anemia, has frequent racking pain, but doesn’t let it interfere with his gusto for life. And 91-year old-conductor Mehli Mehta inspires comparison between the cellular rhythms that threaten his heart and those that govern his work.

In these intimate, lyrical portraits of people and their cells, Nadler brings a unique clarity and compassion to medicine.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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