The emperor of all maladies : a biography of cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee.
- London : Fourth Estate, 2011.
- xviii+585 p. : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
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.
978-0-00-742805-2
Cancer -- Popular works. Cancer -- Treatment -- History. Health and Fitness