Yet "The Emperor of All Maladies" is well worth wading into, not least for its encompassing view of the science, philanthropy and politics that have defined the modern war on cancer. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee has a storyteller's flair and a gift for translating complex medical concepts into simple language, he occasionally reverts to jargon so dense-especially in describing key discoveries in cancer genetics-that the lay reader may feel overwhelmed. THE STORY OF CANCER: The Emperor of All Maladies examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective and a biographer’s passion. Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Gene: An Intimate History, a 1 New York Times bestseller The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction and The Laws of Medicine. He takes several detours into well-trod territory, such as the emergence of AIDS and its influence on patient activism, that distract from the primary story: how centuries of study have led to an era of understanding, prevention and treatment that has seen a reduction in both the incidence of cancer and the death rates from the four most common cancers. The Emperor of All Maladies Kindle Edition by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 5,184 ratings Editors' pick Best Nonfiction See all formats and editions Kindle 16.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Mukherjee delivers on that promise and more-at times it seems like too much more. Author and physician Siddhartha Mukherjee has written a sprawling new book on the history of cancer, "The Emperor of All Maladies."ĭr.
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