{"product_id":"the-body-as-soft-matter-observation-and-organisation-in-living-systems-us-letter-hardcover-edition","title":"The Body as Soft-Matter: Observation and Organisation in Living Systems (US Letter Hardcover Edition)","description":"\u003cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-top: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; color: #677279; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box !important;\" data-start=\"904\" data-end=\"1204\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box !important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThe Body as Soft-Matter: Observation and Organisation in Living Systems\u003c\/span\u003e introduces a different way of thinking about living systems.Modern medicine has achieved extraordinary success by analysing the body through its individual parts, from organs and tissues to cells, molecules, and genes. Yet living organisms are more than collections of components. They are dynamic systems that organise, adapt, repair, and transform over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-top: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; color: #677279; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box !important;\" data-start=\"1206\" data-end=\"1555\"\u003eDrawing on concepts from soft-matter science, this book explores the body as a living material system shaped by boundaries, interfaces, phase transitions, architecture, and environmental conditions. Blood, mucus, repair processes, inflammation, fibrosis, and chronic disease are examined through the lens of organisation rather than reduction alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-top: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; color: #677279; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box !important;\" data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1916\"\u003eWritten as an accessible introduction for clinicians, researchers, students, and interested readers, the book provides the conceptual foundation for the \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box !important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\" data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"1743\"\u003eAtlas of Soft-Matter Structures\u003c\/em\u003e series. Rather than asking only what biological structures are made of, it asks how they behave, how they persist, and how changing conditions influence their organisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-top: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; color: #677279; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box !important;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-top: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #677279; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box !important;\" data-start=\"1918\" data-end=\"2154\"\u003eThrough a series of short chapters and conceptual questions, readers are invited to reconsider the body not as a machine assembled from fixed parts, but as a complex soft-matter system capable of continual adaptation and reorganisation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NixonLab","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":66924481904944,"sku":"9639098000114","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-body-as-soft-matter-observation-and-organisation-in-living-systems-us-letter-hardcover-edition","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}