The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

873 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction health history science informative slow-paced

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Large Print Edition "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 con...

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