The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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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
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“In God we trust. All others [must] have data." - Bernard Fisher
From the first recorded case in ancient Egypt 4,600 years ago to becoming the 2nd most cause of death in the United States, Mukherjee sketches a biography of cancer through history, through the trials and errors and hubris of medicine, through the innovations of the Industrial Revolution and the chemical mutants of the World Wars, through meticulous epidemiology and clinical trials o...read more
From the first recorded case in ancient Egypt 4,600 years ago to becoming the 2nd most cause of death in the United States, Mukherjee sketches a biography of cancer through history, through the trials and errors and hubris of medicine, through the innovations of the Industrial Revolution and the chemical mutants of the World Wars, through meticulous epidemiology and clinical trials o...read more
This book is amazing. It's informative: even with all I know about cancer (unfortunately) I still learned so much. It's interesting: I was eager to go back to this long book and learn more about the disease and the people who changed the landscape of the battle against cancer. I was afraid to read it because I thought I would find it horribly depressing (especially after reading Being Mortal by Atul Gawande) but it wasn't. It was hopeful in a pra...read more
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