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The Emperor of All Maladies

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of All Maladies
The Emperor of All Maladies

Riveting biography of cancer, medicine's greatest challenge.

If you're fascinated by how our understanding of diseases evolves, "The Emperor of All Maladies" could be the gripping narrative you're looking for. Mukherjee provides a poignant exploration of cancer, blending science, history, and personal stories. It's an engrossing and enlightening read for anyone interested in the human struggle against this relentless disease.

  • Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2011)
  • Guardian First Book Award (2011)
  • J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Nominee (2011)
  • Wellcome Book Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2011)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (2010)
  • PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2011)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Emperor of All Maladies

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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ISBN: 9780007367481
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Date of Publication: 2011-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Science
Related Topics: Biography, Health, Medicine, Medical, Popular Science, Biology
Goodreads rating: 4.34
(rated by 111820 readers)

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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 nineteenth-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 magisterial, 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 mill
 

Riveting biography of cancer, medicine's greatest challenge.

If you're fascinated by how our understanding of diseases evolves, "The Emperor of All Maladies" could be the gripping narrative you're looking for. Mukherjee provides a poignant exploration of cancer, blending science, history, and personal stories. It's an engrossing and enlightening read for anyone interested in the human struggle against this relentless disease.

  • Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2011)
  • Guardian First Book Award (2011)
  • J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Nominee (2011)
  • Wellcome Book Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2011)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (2010)
  • PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2011)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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