{"id":1168,"date":"2017-09-06T07:35:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/2017\/09\/the-emperor-of-all-maladies-a-biography-of-cancer\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:51:08","slug":"the-emperor-of-all-maladies-a-biography-of-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/the-emperor-of-all-maladies-a-biography-of-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Siddhartha Mukherjee \u2013 Scribner, 2010<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In this fascinating, exhaustively researched volume, the author takes on the disease that has destroyed\u2014and intrigued\u2014humans since the start of recorded time. Mukherjee is an oncologist, medical educator and clinical researcher. His book is \u201can attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness.\u201d And so he does, tracing the history of cancer through extraordinary personalities and their work, including Sidney Farber, father of chemotherapy, philanthropist Mary Lasker and William Halsted, who developed the modern mastectomy. Case histories movingly illustrate his points. One of the most poignant is of a woman named Germaine, whose suffering taught Mukherjee that \u201cto keep pace with this malady, you needed to keep inventing and reinventing, learning and unlearning strategies.\u201d In 2015, PBS released a documentary <\/a>based on the book, created by filmmaker Ken Burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Siddhartha Mukherjee \u2013 Scribner, 2010 In this fascinating, exhaustively researched volume, the author takes on the disease that has destroyed\u2014and intrigued\u2014humans since the start of recorded time. Mukherjee is an oncologist, medical educator and clinical researcher. His book is…<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer<\/span> ›<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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