The Emperor of All Maladies [electronic resource] : A Biography of Cancer
Mukherjee, Siddhartha2011
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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize Now, as cancer becomes an ever more universal experience, the need to understand it, and its treatment, has never been more compelling. In this groundbreaking and award-winning account Siddhartha Mukherjee tells the fascinating story of our relationship with this disease. From brutal early surgical treatments, to Sidney Farber's hugely risky discovery of chemotherapy, to the author's treatment of his own patients, he reveals how far we have come in solving one of science's great mysteries and offers a fascinating glimpse of our future progress.
Main title:
The Emperor of All Maladies [electronic resource] : A Biography of Cancer / Siddhartha Mukherjee
Author:
Mukherjee, Siddhartha, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Siddhartha Mukherjee M.D., Ph.D., is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. He has published articles in Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, The New York Times, and The New Republic. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter.
Awards:
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist (The National Book Critics Circle)Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Columbia University)Notable Books for Adults (Notable Books Council)10 Best Books of 2010 (The New York Times)
ISBN:
9780007435814
Language:
English
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BRN:
2790707
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