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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

By Siddhartha Mukherjee

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies 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...Show more

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ISBN

9781439170915

Publisher

Scribner Book Company

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Format

Paperback

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