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A Biography of Cancer
Scribner
November 2010
On Sale: November 16, 2010
592 pages
ISBN: 1439107955
EAN: 9781439107959
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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 cut off her malignant 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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