The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee • 2010
Devastation Rating
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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