The Emperor of All Maladies

A Biography of Cancer

De: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Narrado por: Fred Sanders

A magnificent, beautifully written "biography" of cancer - from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.

The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance but also of hubris, arrogance, paternalism, 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 his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. The audiobook is like a literary thriller with cancer as the central character.

From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave may have cut off her diseased breast, to the 19th-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 toxic, bruising, and draining regimens in order to survive - and to increase the store of human knowledge.

©2010 Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. All rights reserved. (P)2015 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Cathartic

I'm a breast cancer survivor-twice over 15 years. This is part of a final therapy for me after 4 years since chemo, surgery and radiation. The history makes me thankful my oncologist were trained today. The narration was riveting - I had this as an audio book but will also get a print copy

Exhaustive

But for the narrator,it would never be finishing - or take too long!Worth it really

the all of it

this book made my cancer in some way "knowable". instead of a dark mystifying terror, it unveiled the disease. whike it doent change the outcome, it made me better pre6pred for battle.

Should be required reading for anyone in medical field

An excellent and thorough telling and overview of cancer history and biology. As a medical practitioner I learned from his telling of the story and feel his book should be required reading for anyone in the medical field.

Amazingly uncomfortable - the black bile

I rarely read and listen but now I have developed the habit I came across this book from bill gates reading list so I decided to have an audiobook listen. I must say I have NOT read heard anything like this it's never wracking, jaw dropping and many goosebumps moments throughout the book and not to forget the things you learn about cancer. We live in amazing times how the evolution to cover come this disease and battle is still on.

Great writer

Fascinating, engaging, and awesome.
This book is unbelievably good. Who would have thought that a book about cancer can be so good!

An epic

Book is so well written that even though the technicalities of cancer research began to blur, I was enraptured with the language. The reader was excellent.

The Emperor of all M maladies

Excellent history of the search of a cure for cancer. The telling is remarkably compelling

Scrappy

Excellent narrator. Powerful content. Outstanding historical tracking. Meaningful personal stories. Impactful mirror of immortality.

Great research and story telling

Learnt a great deal about cancer and life. This book also shows how our lives are dependent on the steady progresses made in the medical field.