4.5
The Emperor of All Maladies is 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.
...a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure...the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike...
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Language:
English
Length:
571 pages
Author:
Siddhartha Mukherjee
