The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

A New York Times Bestseller, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize -- Here is 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.

Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. His book"The Emperor of All?Maladies: ?A Biography of Cancer" won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction.?Mukherjee is?an assistant professor of medicine at " "Columbia " "University " " and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center.?A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from "Stanford " "University ," University of "Oxford, " " "Harvard " "Medical " "School " ."?He has published articles in"Nature," "The New England Journal of Medicine," ?"The New York Times," and "The New Republic."?He lives in " "New York " " w

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