Emperor of maladies

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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011

Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011

Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011

Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011

Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize

In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with – and perished from – for more than five thousand years.

The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out ‘war against cancer’. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary.

From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge.

Riveting and magesterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.

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The Emperor of All Maladies

Rating: 5 / 5 | Prijs: € 23.5

Winner of the pulitzer prize and a documentary from ken burns on pbs this new york times bestseller is an extraordinary achievement the new yorker a magnificent profoundly humane biography of cancer from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles i Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

The Emperor of All Maladies

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Winner of the pulitzer prize and a documentary from ken burns on pbs this new york times bestseller is an extraordinary achievement the new yorker a magnificent profoundly humane biography of cancer from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the Uiterlijk 22 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

The Gene

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Spanning the globe and several centuries this is the story of the quest to decipher the master code that makes and defines humans that governs our form and function it is also an intimate history of the author s own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness reminding us that genetics is Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 29 september 2011

Aantal pagina's: 400

Kaarten inbegrepen: Nee

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Hoofduitgeverij: Fourth Estate Ltd

Originele titel: Mukherjee

AI-gegenereerd: Nee

Dyslexievriendelijk: Nee

Editie: 1

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 45 mm

Product lengte: 196 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 129 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 45 mm

Verpakking lengte: 196 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 434 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9780007250929

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