The Laws of Medicine

Resumen del libro

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world's premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine and how understanding these principles can empower us all.

Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book,The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a science ? Sciences must have laws statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences?

Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline culminating inThe Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine.

Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee's signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future.

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