I, Superorganism: Learning to love your inner ecosystem - Softcover
Every human body carries a secret cargo: a huge population of microorganisms living in the mouth, on the skin, in the gut. They help digest our food. They make essential vitamins. They break down toxins and metabolise drugs. They exert an invisible influence on our hormones, our immune systems, perhaps even our brains. This is the human microbiome - a living, shifting system of previously unimagined importance and complexity. In this first book-length account of this new realm of human biology, award-winning science writer Jon Turney explores the microbiome in detail, charting its birth and development, investigating how it works, and assessing its many implications for our health, including its potential to shed new light on conditions such as bowel diseases, cancer, allergies and asthma. He considers the potential impacts of our modern disinfectant and antibiotic obsessions, and ponders a future of designer microbiomes and mood-altering probiotics. This book will make you think again about your relationship with your body, your habits - even your sense of who and what you are - as it reveals what it means to be a 21st century superorganism.
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'I, Superorganism will surprise you and then surprise you again. It seems our body could not be more different than we could imagine.' Source: - Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Biology Book Award
'Written in an engaging and exciting style that encourages readers to view their bodies, their superorganisms, in a new light'. Source: Chemistry World
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'Written in an engaging and exciting style that encourages readers to view their bodies, their superorganisms, in a new light'. Source: Chemistry World
Jon Turney is a science writer and former features editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement. He has taught at Imperial College and was head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL. He was popular science editor at Penguin Press and is the author, among much else, of The Rough Guide to the Future (Rough Guides, 2010) and Lovelock and Gaia (Icon, 2003), and editor of A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science (Faber, 2000).
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- PublisherIcon Books
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1785780247
- ISBN 13 9781785780240
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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