The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
cancer medicine history science

Our Take

Mukherjee writes a biography of cancer — from ancient Egypt to targeted therapy — and makes you understand the disease as a character with its own arc. The patients who populate these pages are not case studies; they are people who were alive and then were not.

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