From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee’s revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The ...(展开全部)

Kleinman, a psychiatrist, trained in anthropology, reports on his studies of health care in Taiwan. He describes his observations of clinical interviews between various medical practitioner, folk-healers, temple medicine men, and Chinese-style and Western-style physicians - and their patients. He stress the importance of adopting the proper cultural perspective, making ones int...(展开全部)

Included in this book are 124 stories (parables) from a variety of traditions, both ancient and modern. Each story is a life lesson that teaches truths about ourselves and our world.

Few modern innovations have spread quite so quickly as the cell phone. This technology has transformed communication throughout the world. Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many regions, but perhaps nowhere more than for low-income populations in countries such as Jamaica, where in the last few years many people have moved from no phone to cell phone. This...(展开全部)

When one defines order as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his...(展开全部)

作者：（美国）B.艾伯茨 D.布雷 K.霍普金 A.约翰逊 等 译者：丁小燕 陈跃磊 等 B.艾伯茨（Bruce Alberts）：哈佛大学博士，现任加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）生物化学和生物物理学教授。Science杂志主编，曾任美国科学院院长达12年之久（1993～2005年）。 D.布雷（Dennis Bray）：麻省理工学院博士，现为剑桥大学荣誉退休教授。2006年，他获得微软欧洲科学奖（Microsoft European Science Award）。 K.霍普金（Karen Hopkin）：在艾伯特•爱因斯坦医学院获生物化学博士，现居马萨诸塞州萨默维尔市（Somerville），科普作家。 A.约翰逊（Alexander Johnson）：哈佛大学博士，现任加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）微生物和免疫学教授，生物化学、细胞、遗传和发育生...(展开全部)

At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma.The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into the past, and our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds.The Expressiveness of the Body medi...(展开全部)

At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma.The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into the past, and our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds.The Expressiveness of the Body medi...(展开全部)