The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddharta Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddharta Mukherjee

Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

Winner 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	9781439107959
ISBN 10	1439107955
Title	The Emperor of All Maladies
Author	Siddharta Mukherjee
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2010-11-16
Number of pages	592
Prizes	Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Nonfiction) 2011, Winner of Literary Award (Science) 2011, Winner of Guardian First Book Award 2011, Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2012, Winner of Books for a Better Life (First Book) 2010, Runner-up for Discover Great New Writers (Nonfiction) 2010, Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2010, Commended for Lukas Prize Project (Nonfiction) 2011, Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Science/Technology) 2010, Commended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Debut Author) 2011
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