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Emperor of Maladies : A Biography of Cancer
A comprehensive history of cancer - one of the greatest enemies of medical progress - and an insight into its effects and potential cures, by a leading expert on the illness. In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer wi...
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London
Fourth Estate
2011
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| LEADER | 02118nam a2200169Ia 4500 | ||
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| 999 | |c 28331 |d 28331 | ||
| 020 | |a 0007428057 | ||
| 082 | |a 616.994 MUK-E .PS | ||
| 100 | |a Siddhartha Mukherjee | ||
| 245 | |a Emperor of Maladies : A Biography of Cancer | ||
| 260 | |a London |b Fourth Estate |c 2011 | ||
| 300 | |a xiv, 571 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | ||
| 505 | |a "Of blacke cholor, without boyling" -- An impatient war -- "Will you turn me out if I can't get better?" -- Prevention is the cure -- "A distorted version of our normal selves" -- The fruits of long endeavors -- Atossa's war. | ||
| 520 | |a A comprehensive history of cancer - one of the greatest enemies of medical progress - and an insight into its effects and potential cures, by a leading expert on the illness. 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. 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, 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\' . Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes 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 a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia. | ||
| 650 | |a Cancer -- History. Leukemia -- History. Leukemia -- history. | ||
| 942 | |c BK | ||
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