Tuesday, October 1, 2013

EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES: A BIOGRAPHY OF CANCER, by Siddhartha Mukherjee



In LitLovers

PBS will have a documentary in 2015 with the same title, with Ken Burns.


Review in the New York Times


Quotes in Goodreads


In The Guardian

In ancient times, people didn't have a word for cancer. And centuries ago, the treatment for cancer was just as deadly as the disease. Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, talks to Steve Inskeep about some breakthroughs that came from unexpected people and in unexpected places.  NPR November 18, 2010


In NPR also in Talk of the Nation


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