The Emperor of All Maladies
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2010
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-742805-2 (ISBN)
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-742805-2 (ISBN)
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A magnificent, beautifully written biography of cancer - from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011
‘Profound, eloquent and searching’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘Essential reading’
INDEPENDENT
‘Masterly’
GUARDIAN
‘Extraordinary’
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, 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, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out ‘war against cancer’. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary.
From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge.
Riveting and magesterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011
‘Profound, eloquent and searching’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘Essential reading’
INDEPENDENT
‘Masterly’
GUARDIAN
‘Extraordinary’
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, 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, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out ‘war against cancer’. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary.
From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge.
Riveting and magesterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Song of the Cell, The Gene: An Intimate History and The Laws of Medicine. He is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School. In 2023, he was elected as a new member of the National Academy of Medicine. His work has been published in Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker, among others.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.11.2010 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 125 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-00-742805-7 / 0007428057 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-00-742805-2 / 9780007428052 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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