by Siddhartha Mukherjee · DEBATE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788499924496
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In 'The Emperor of All Maladies', Siddhartha Mukherjee offers a comprehensive and absorbing biography of cancer, exploring its origins, evolution, and the modern treatments that have emerged over a century of research. This book not only reviews the science and history of the fight against cancer but also reflects on the disease, medical ethics, and the lives of oncologists and patients. With deep empathy, Mukherjee narrates a human and moving story of this complex and elusive disease.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian physician, biologist, and author. His first book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010), won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and Guardian First Book Award, among other awards. It was listed in the "All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books" by Time magazine in 2011. He followed it with The Gene: An Intimate History (2016), which was among The New York Times 100 best books of 2016, and a finalist for the Wellcome Trust Prize and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He won the 2019 Lewis Thomas Prize.
