Name: the emperor of all maladies,a biography of cancer
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Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN: 9781439107959

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Publisher

Scribner Book Company

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.1 x 16.5 x 3.8 cm

Weight

0.89 kg.

ISBN

1439107955

ISBN13

9781439107959

Synopsis "the emperor of all maladies,a biography of cancer"

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 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. 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.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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(Nueva Dehli, 1970) es profesor de Medicina en la Universidad de Columbia y oncólogo en su hospital universitario. Ganador de una beca Rhodes, se graduó en la Universidad de Stanford, fue investigador en la de Oxford y se doctoró en Medicina en la de Harvard. Ha publicado artículos en Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times y The New Republic. Su libro El emperador de todos los males (Debate, 2014) fue ganador del Premio Pulitzer en la categoría de no ficción.

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