The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
Ranked #1 in Pharmacology, Ranked #3 in Cancer — see more rankings.
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 1439107955 (ISBN13: 9781439107959)
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... more
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... more
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Bill Gates CEO/MicrosoftI loved [this] brilliant book about cancer. (Source)
Timothy J. Jorgensen A tremendous amount of cancer biology comes through in that book through the eyes of the victims and the people up close and personal. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Emperor of All Maladies is ranked in the following categories:
- #5 in Biochemistry
- #14 in Biology
- #8 in Biotechnology
- #63 in Catalog
- #28 in Chemistry
- #8 in Diseases
- #14 in Genetics
- #4 in Genomics
- #12 in Health
- #99 in History
- #11 in History Of Science
- #74 in Humanity
- #3 in Immunology
- #47 in Indian Author
- #77 in Insightful
- #5 in Internal Medicine
- #16 in Life Sciences
- #48 in Long
- #6 in Medical
- #6 in Medicine
- #7 in Molecular Biology
- #44 in Nerdy
- #24 in New York Times Bestseller
- #78 in Nonfiction
- #15 in Nursing
- #5 in Pathology
- #7 in Pharmacy
- #6 in Physical Therapy
- #15 in Physiology
- #25 in Popular Science
- #24 in Public
- #7 in Public Health
- #32 in Pulitzer Prize
- #49 in Research
- #18 in STEM
- #19 in Science
- #24 in Science and Math
- #32 in Scientific
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