Date: August 9, 2011 ISBN-10: 1,439,170,916 ISBN-13 :978-1439170915 | Version: Reserved
Emperor of all the drawbacks, it is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer from its first documented the emergence of thousands of years ago, in the 20th century by the epic Battle of treatment, control and conquer a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee check cancer cell biologist precision, a historian’s perspective, a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishing clarity and eloquence of a disease, the annals of mankind live together, from the demise of more than five thousand years old.
The cancer story is the story of human wisdom, flexibility and perseverance, but also the arrogance, paternalism, and misunderstanding. Mukherjee tells the story of the discovery of the centuries, setbacks, victories and deaths, said that through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wisdom and incomparable opponent, just three decades ago, that can be easily defeated the “war on cancer.” this book reads like cancer as the protagonist’s literary thriller.
By the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave may have cut off her diseased breast, to the nineteenth-century recipients of primitive radiation and chemotherapy Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, the emperor of all the drawbacks about who had soldiers by fierce demanding program, in order to survive, and to increase our understanding of this iconic disease.
Rivets, urgent, alarming, Emperor of all the drawbacks provides a fascinating glimpse of the future of cancer treatment. This is a very enlightening book, hope and clarity to those seeking cancer mystery.
