The Emperor of All Maladies

Resumen del libro

A magnificent, beautifully written biography of cancer -- from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control and conquer it, to a radical new understanding of its essence. 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'. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee's own leukemia patient, Carla, The 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 magesterial, 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Siddhartha Mukherjeex{0026}lt;/B (Nueva Dehli, 1970) es profesor de Medicina en la Universidad de Columbia y oncólogo en su hospital universitario. Ganador de una beca Rhodes, se graduó en la Universidad de Stanford, fue investigador en la de Oxford y se doctoró en Medicina en la de Harvard. Ha publicado artículos en x{0026}lt;I Naturex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The New England Journal of Medicinex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I The New Republicx{0026}lt;/I . Su libro x{0026}lt;I El emperador de todos los males x{0026}lt;/I (Debate, 2014) fue ganador del Premio Pulitzer en la categoría de no ficción. En Debate también ha publicado x{0026}lt;I El gen. Una historia personal x{0026}lt;/I (2017), que da respuesta a una de las preguntas más relevantes del futuro: ¿Qué significa ser humano cuando se es capaz de manipular la información genética? Actualmente vive en Nueva York con su esposa y sus hijas.x{0026}lt;/P