Emperor of Maladies : A Biography of Cancer (Record no. 295108)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0007428057
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 616.994 MUK-E .PS
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Siddhartha Mukherjee
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Emperor of Maladies : A Biography of Cancer
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Fourth Estate
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiv, 571 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note "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 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Cancer -- History. Leukemia -- History. Leukemia -- history.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 01/09/2015 2 616.994 MUK-E .PS DCB1824 14/02/2019 14/02/2019 19/07/2019 Book