The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
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"His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease.” —Barack Obama
From Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, 2007 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 15-year head of the Human Genome Project, comes one of the most important medical books of the year: The Language of Life. With accessible, insightful prose, Dr. Collins describes the medical, scientific, and genetic revolution that is currently unlocking the secrets of “personalized medicine,” and offers practical advice on how to utilize these discoveries for you and your family’s current and future health and well-being. In the words of Dr. Jerome Groopman (How Doctors Think), The Language of Life “sets out hope without hype, and will enrich the mind and uplift the heart.”
Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is a pioneer gene hunter. He spent fifteen years as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, where he led the international Human Genome Project to a successful completion. For his revolutionary contributions to genetic research he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007, and the National Medal of Science in 2009. He is the Director of the National Institutes of Health.
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Reviews for The Language of Life
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My employer (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) is the world's leader in implementing the ideas around personalized medicine, so I picked up this audiobook to educate me on what's going on around me while I drove to and from work. In it, I found interesting stories from patients combined with weighty data from the human genome.
Collins maintains a warm bedside manner as well as a writer as he does as a researcher, NIH leader, and physician. His homespun manner makes his writing relatable and engaging. It is obvious that he cares about patients as the center of all his work - a nice trait for a driven, big-time researcher to have.
The science described in this book continued trends I sensed while I was a medical student. The question of who-has-what-genes will likely guide science for the better part of my life. Collins engages these questions with the latest (as of the time of his writing) science has to offer. Genetics is indeed a fun field to follow.
Genetics opens up a whole host of research and ethical questions that is currently engaging us as a society. Is gene therapy (which surely is coming) ethical? To what extent do genomics play God? And to what extent are our genes reflections on our experience as much as our heredity? Is religion going to play the role of being merely against technology or will it sublimate itself to aid healing? What will the medical clinic look like in 2050? Also, what will the birth process (and the electronic medical record) look like in 2050?
Collins' book is a good primer to these issues. Listening to it has been a joy for the past couple of weeks.