
The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
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Fred Sanders
A magnificent, beautifully written "biography" of cancer - from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.
The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance but also of hubris, arrogance, paternalism, 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". 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. The audiobook is like a literary thriller with cancer as the central character.
From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave may have cut off her diseased breast, to the 19th-century recipients of primitive radiation and chemotherapy to Mukherjee's own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimens in order to survive - and to increase the store of human knowledge.
©2010 Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. All rights reserved. (P)2015 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Amazing and very well researched biography of cancer!
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Excellent
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That being said, the pace of the book is a rollercoaster of emotion and the author perfectly captures the complex history of progress with various types of cancers. I will definitely be purchasing the physical copy. A must read and one of the best books I've read in a long time.
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emperor of all cancer books.
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Another amazing book by this author
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Best medical book I have read yet
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Great Narrative
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history of cancer
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A humbling reminder for doctors
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Must listen
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