Summary
Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine–and how understanding these principles can empower us all.
Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical professi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781476784847 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1476784841 |
| Author: | Mukherjee |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster/ Ted |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster/ Ted |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 137mm x 183mm |
| Series: | TED Bks. |
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Critics Review
“What he writes is important, and he does so in an elegant,engaging fashion. This is a moving, deeply humane book.” - Los Angeles Review of Books
“What he writes is important, and he does so in an elegant, engaging fashion. This is a moving, deeply humane book.” - Los Angeles Review of Books
Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Song of the Cell, The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013.
Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, the University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. In 2023, he was elected as a new member of the National Academy of Medicine.
He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker.
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