Can I read The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer on EtoBox?
The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Nessa Carey is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer about?
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker) — a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer — from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s new book Song Of The Cell! Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with — and perished from — for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-
Who reads The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, Nessa Carey
- Publisher
- Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuester, Inc
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781439181713
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Medical, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.29 / 5 (153 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14