The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York TimesWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, adapted as a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is "an extraordinary achievement" (The New Yorker)--a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer.
Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with--and perished from--for more than five thousand years.
The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out "war against cancer." The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist.
Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a staff oncology physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University. Journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation have published his work.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781439170915 |
| ISBN 10 | 1439170916 |
| Title | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer |
| Author | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2011-08-09 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
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