Why did Ronnie love this book?
The author, an oncologist, takes the readers on a journey into the history of cancer, from centuries ago when the earliest physicians barely knew what they were dealing with, to modern times when heavily researched science determines treatment and cures. I enjoy books about science (at least when they are written in terms a non-scientist can understand) and I also enjoy books about history. This book combines those topics, making for a fascinating read, although because of the subject, parts of it also make for a depressing read.
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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
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…