The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
@DrSidMukherjee

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Timesbestseller 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.

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.

Interview with the Author

Zócalo Public Square 
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Will We Ever Conquer Cancer?
1/9/11         60 min

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