About the author
Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian-American physician, cancer researcher, and writer. His books use the history of medicine and biology to explain how scientific ideas emerge, change clinical practice, and enter the most private decisions of families.
The Gene begins with Siddhartha Mukherjee's family history and the recurrence of mental illness across generations. That intimate uncertainty leads into the scientific search for a unit of inheritance — an idea named before anyone knew what physical object could carry it.
Where to start
Start with The Gene: An Intimate History. Siddhartha Mukherjee tells the history of heredity from Mendel's peas to genome sequencing and genetic engineering.
