The Emperor Of All Maladies. A Biography Of Cancer
Mukherjee Siddhartha
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Scribner/Simon And Schuster
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: Reprint
Description: 571 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a light mark to cover from old price sticker.
Publishers Description: An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here.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 cancerfrom 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 biologists precision, a historians perspective, and a biographers passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived withand perished fromfor 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.
ISBN: 9781439107959
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