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,...
Visa mer
Recensioner
2016-07-21
Betyg 
Välskriven och intressant. Men jag tror att det är en bitvis återkommande otydlig- och snårighet som får mig att nog vilja läsa om boken, och inte att den är något alldeles extra. Utmärkt som historisk överblick, men färsk och konkret kunskap om cancern går nog att ta in minst lika bra på andra vägar.
