Winner of the guardian first book award 2011 winner of the pulitzer prize for nonfiction 2011 shortlisted for the duff cooper prize 2011 shortlisted for the wellcome trust book prize in the emperor of all maladies, siddhartha mukherjee, doctor, researcher and awardwinning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologists precision, a historians perspective, and a biographers passion. As if the subject needed any further resonance, cancer. The emperor of all maladies closes its threenight run acknowledging narrator edward herrman and producerstand up. Pick up the key ideas in the book with this quick summary. Mukherjees debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. A s both a medical student and a cancer patient, i found that the pulitzer prizewinning book the emperor of all maladies. The impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires that drive human history are, at least in part, encoded in the human genome. The guardian wrote that mukherjee manages to convey not only a forensically. This episode follows that centurieslong search, but centers on the story of sidney farber, who, defying conventional wisdom in the late 1940s, introduces the modern era of chemotherapy, eventually galvanizing a war on cancer. A biography of cancer, his first book and an enormous undertaking an exhaustive attempt to chronicle the history of the disease itself and the ongoing scientific fight to cure it.
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And centuries ago, the treatment for cancer was just as deadly as the disease. Like history repeats itself, in part because the genome repeats itself. In the emperor of all maladies, siddhartha mukherjeea cancer doctor and researcherembarks on an ambitious effort to write a biography of the disease, from the earliest evidence of cancer. An epigraph to the book states, a quarter of all american deaths, and about 15 percent of all deaths worldwide, will be attributed to cancer, but the book also describes medical advances that now heal, prevent, or palliate most forms of cancer.
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