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The Emperor of All Maladies

Disciplines:
history/cancer history
mukherjee

Summary

Siddhartha Mukherjee's 2010 'biography of cancer' — a history of the disease, the science of cancer biology, and the development of cancer treatment from radical surgery through chemotherapy to targeted therapies and immunotherapy.

Core Contribution

Creates the most comprehensive narrative history of cancer and oncology — Mukherjee's synthesis of clinical medicine, basic science, and historical narrative makes the complexity of cancer comprehensible and puts the modern era of targeted therapy in historical context.

Historical Influences

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Intellectual Lineage

Siddhartha Mukherjee Scribner

Allied Works

The Gene The Laws of Medicine

Contemporaries & Peers

The Gene The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Minds Influenced

Medical history literatureLenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

The Emperor of All Maladies Mukherjee as cancer narrative

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