The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Author:   Siddhartha Mukherjee ,  Stephen Hoye
Publisher:   Tantor Media, Inc
Edition:   Library ed
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9781400149179


Publication Date:   16 November 2010
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer


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Written by cancer physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies is a stunning combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms our understanding of cancer and much of the world around us. Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a novelist's richness of detail, a historian's range, and a biographer's passion.The story of cancer is one of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance, paternalism, and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out war against cancer. It's a story of science and scientists, of centuries of discoveries, of setbacks and victories and deaths, told through the eyes of Mukherjee's predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary.From the Persian Queen Atossa, who instructed her Greek slave to cut off her malignant breast, to the radical surgeries of the nineteenth century, to the first recipients of primitive radiation and chemotherapy, to Mukherjee's own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is a story of people-and their families-who soldier through toxic, bruising, and draining regimens to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge.Riveting and magisterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and offers a bold new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers, and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.

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Author:   Siddhartha Mukherjee ,  Stephen Hoye
Publisher:   Tantor Media, Inc
Imprint:   Tantor Media, Inc
Edition:   Library ed
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.206kg
ISBN:  

9781400149179


ISBN 10:   1400149177
Publication Date:   16 November 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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An inspiring account of a very personal battle against 'the plague of our generation.' ---Kirkus


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Siddhartha Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. He has been published in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Stephen Hoye has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and two prestigious APA Audie Awards, including one for Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. He has recorded many other notable titles, such as Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and The Google Story by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed.

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