![]() And he leads us out of the lab to illustrate how profoundly political medicine can be, whether describing how feminists agitated against disfiguring mastectomies or how 1980s AIDS activists inspired cancer patients to fight for drug approvals. With a Dickensian command of character and an instinct for the drama of discovery, he makes science not merely intelligible but thrilling. From the simplest questions-how old is cancer? what does it look like?-Mukherjee, a physician and professor, plunges us into a sweeping history with a colorful cast of renegade scientists, their patrons, and patients. Ubiquitous but taboo ( The New York Times refused to print the very word in its pages during the early 1950s), cancer is the "morbid, hypnotic" villain of Siddhartha Mukherjee's stirring saga, The Emperor of All Maladies. ![]() ![]() Even as cholera and tuberculosis-the scourges of the 19th century-wilted in the wake of medical advancements and vigorous public health campaigns, the cancer cell continued to bloom. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfictionįor 4,000 years, cancer has stalked us. ![]()
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