Diseases & Physical Ailments
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and 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—from its
first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic
battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a
radical new understanding of its essence.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. Read more

 

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