Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns
on PBS, 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. 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. From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose
Greek slave may have cut off her diseased breast, to the
nineteenth-century recipients of primitive radiation and
chemotherapy to Mukherjee's own leukemia patient, Carla, The
Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered
through fiercely demanding regimens in order to survive--and to
increase our understanding of this iconic disease. 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.
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