It’s a fascinating medical history, but completely accessible to the lay reader.Īttack of the Books! is participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, a month long quest to post every day. I owe a shout out to my good cousin Adam, but for whose gift to me of the book I might not have read it. The tale, spun almost novel-like at points, includes doctors, chemists, children, victims, and survivors, each a story in its own weaving into the greater narrative about one of the greatest diseases to ravage our race and that has eluded cure or solution. It’s a 4,000 year history, and Mukherjee tells it well. In the author’s note to The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee notes that “Cancer is not one disease, but many diseases.” It anticipates Mukherjee’s history, a look at cancer starting in the ages and proceeding forward to the modern day.
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