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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-13
9780007250912
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106707468
Product Key Features
Author
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publication Name
The Emperor of All Maladies
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
240mm
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
925g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Topic
Popular Medicine
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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