Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbytarian Hospital. A former Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford (where he received a PhD studying cancer-causing viruses) and from Harvard Medical School. His laboratory focuses on discovering new cancer drugs using innovative biological methods. Mukherjee trained in cancer medicine at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School and was on the staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published articles and commentary in such journals as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron and the Journal of Clinical Investigation and in publications such as the New York Times and the New Republic. His work was nominated for Best American Science Writing, 2000 (edited by James Gleick). He lives in Boston and New York with his wife, Sarah Sze, an artist, and with his daughter, Leela.
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.
“……可以认为癌症在试图仿效一个再生器官;或者更令人不安的是在仿效一个再生的有机体。其对永生不死的追求反映了我们自己的追求,埋藏在我们的胚胎和器官重生中的一种追求。有一天,如果癌症成功了,它将产生一个比其宿主更加完美的生命,具有不死的特性和增殖的动力。...
評分“……可以认为癌症在试图仿效一个再生器官;或者更令人不安的是在仿效一个再生的有机体。其对永生不死的追求反映了我们自己的追求,埋藏在我们的胚胎和器官重生中的一种追求。有一天,如果癌症成功了,它将产生一个比其宿主更加完美的生命,具有不死的特性和增殖的动力。...
評分2013年快过去3个月了,看了一堆书,这是第一本好书。 首先,作者很会讲故事,运用了很多小说上的技术,使人如看侦探小说。 其次,翻译流畅,李虎老师的翻译很流畅,没有磕磕盼盼的地方。 最后,这本书的装帧很喜欢。
評分癌症源于我们自身的一些负责调节细胞生长的基础基因的突变。而这种突变基因导致的癌细胞有时会展现出永不停止的分裂。在合适的环境下癌细胞可以一直分裂下去,没有衰老的痕迹,这透露出永生的意味。而这种带着永生意味的分裂却会摧毁我们的身体,带来无可避免的死亡。 这真是...
評分《白色巨塔》 山崎丰子的不朽巨著,电视剧也是不可逾越的高峰。可以更深入地了解医生的动机和心态。 《梦想之城》 美国独立战争前后前后的医学世家传记(虚构的),可以看到那个时代的医学面貌。 《冬至草》 另一位身兼癌症专家和作家身份的人所写的作品。
引人入勝,發人深省;可讀性相當強。
评分癌癥史/普利策
评分引人入勝,發人深省;可讀性相當強。
评分引人入勝,發人深省;可讀性相當強。
评分引人入勝,發人深省;可讀性相當強。
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