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The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Paperback, 2011)

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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize A magnificent, beautifully written biography of cancer - from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control and conquer it, to a radical new understanding of its essence. In 'The Emperor of All Maladies', Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, 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, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out 'war against cancer'. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee's own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge. Riveting and magesterial, 'The Emperor of All Maladies' provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.

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Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-13
9780007250929
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Author
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publication Name
The Emperor of All Maladies
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Biology
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
430g

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Siddhartha Mukherjee
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United Kingdom

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by lian_leig22 Nov, 2018
Recommended on SO many levels
Gave it to my Uncle who found out recently he has cancer, I know the author's credentials and intelligence, plus heritage and expertise would impress him. Plus Pulitzer Prize winning and acclaimed by reader and critic alike. Can't go wrong lol!! Pretty meaty book apparently but cancer's not exactly a light and fluffy subject, is it?!
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Great book- reads like a thriller, yet very interesting scientifically as well. tells the story of cancer, especially in the modern era, and of the politics behind it.

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