by Siddhartha Mukherjee · Fourth Estate Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007250929
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In 'The Emperor of All Maladies', Siddhartha Mukherjee offers a comprehensive biography of cancer, from its origins to the search for a cure. Combining medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism, the author transforms the reader's understanding of this disease. Mukherjee provides a glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and offers a new perspective on how doctors, scientists, philosophers, and lay people have observed and understood the human body throughout the centuries. This book recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary.
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.
