Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out ?war against cancer?. 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.
In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist?s precision, a historian?s perspective, and a biographer?s passion. Read Online and Download The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer BY Siddhartha Mukherjee
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