The emperor of all maladies : a biography of cancer : Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Fourth Estate, 2011.Description: xviii+585 p. : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cmISBN:- 978-0-00-742805-2
- 616.994 MUK-E
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Book | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | 616.994 MUK-E (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | DCB3865 |
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize
"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.
A recount of the centuries-long conflict surrounding cancer and cancer treatments and a revelation of of how far we have come in solving one of science's greatest mysteries.
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