Siddhartha Mukherjee

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerHardcover, 16 November 2010

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Print Length
592 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Date Published
16 Nov 2010
ISBN-10
1439107955
ISBN-13
9781439107959

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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.

Product Details

Author:
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
16 November 2010
Dimensions:
24.13 x 16.51 x 3.81 cm
ISBN-10:
1439107955
ISBN-13:
9781439107959
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
592
Weight:
889.04 gm

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