The Emperor Of All Maladies: A Biography Of Cancer
- Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrator: Fred Sanders
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 22:17:52
Synopsis
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.
Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee 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, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist.
From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave may have cut off her diseased breast, to the nineteenth-century recipients of primitive radiation and chemotherapy to Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through fiercely demanding regimens in order to survive—and to increase our understanding of this iconic disease.
Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Chapters
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EmperorOfAllMaladies 01 Title
Duration: 34s -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 02 Dedication
Duration: 01min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 03 AuthorsNote
Duration: 05min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 04 Prologue
Duration: 19min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 05 Part1 OfBlackeCholor
Duration: 28min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 06 AMonsterMoreInsatiable
Duration: 33min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 07 FarbersGauntlet
Duration: 14min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 08 APrivatePlague
Duration: 27min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 09 Onkos
Duration: 13min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 10 VanishingHumors
Duration: 09min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 11 RemoteSympathy
Duration: 15min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 12 ARadicalIdea
Duration: 37min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 13 TheHardTubeAndTheWeakLight
Duration: 19min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 14 DyeingAndDying
Duration: 27min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 15 PoisoningTheAtmosphere
Duration: 11min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 16 TheGoodnessOfShowBusiness
Duration: 19min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 17 TheHouseThatJimmyBuilt
Duration: 09min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 18 Part2 AnImpatientWar
Duration: 27min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 19 TheseNewFriendsOfChemotherapy
Duration: 37min -
EmperorOfAllMaladies 20 TheButcherShop
Duration: 17min