出版社: Simon & Schuster
副标题: A Biography of Cancer
出版年: 2010-11-16
页数: 608
定价: GBP 11.43
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9781439195703
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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 ce...
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 eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years.
The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. 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 that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist.
From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave may have cut off her diseased breast, to the nineteenth-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 fiercely demanding regimens in order to survive—and to increase our understanding of this iconic disease.
Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
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悉达多·穆克吉 作者
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Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbytarian Hospital. A former Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford (where he received a PhD studying cancer-causing viruses) and from Harvard Medical School. His laboratory ...
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbytarian Hospital. A former Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford (where he received a PhD studying cancer-causing viruses) and from Harvard Medical School. His laboratory focuses on discovering new cancer drugs using innovative biological methods. Mukherjee trained in cancer medicine at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School and was on the staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published articles and commentary in such journals as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron and the Journal of Clinical Investigation and in publications such as the New York Times and the New Republic. His work was nominated for Best American Science Writing, 2000 (edited by James Gleick). He lives in Boston and New York with his wife, Sarah Sze, an artist, and with his daughter, Leela.
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1 有用 pluskid 2021-07-25 01:40:48
一部人类与癌症抗争的史诗,真是各种触目惊心,直到二十世纪末人们对癌症的生物机制都还并不了解,治疗和预防的战役中还有各种人类自身造成的各种混乱,例如烟草行业为了利益而打压吸烟与癌症的联系相关的研究和报道这场旷日持久的战争虽然看起来好像落下了帷幕但是其实只是将战场转移到了发展中国家而已。又比如激进的外科手术师或者化疗师大力鼓吹超高强度治疗方式也是伤害了一代人。现在我们了解了癌症的机制,但离真正对所有癌... 一部人类与癌症抗争的史诗,真是各种触目惊心,直到二十世纪末人们对癌症的生物机制都还并不了解,治疗和预防的战役中还有各种人类自身造成的各种混乱,例如烟草行业为了利益而打压吸烟与癌症的联系相关的研究和报道这场旷日持久的战争虽然看起来好像落下了帷幕但是其实只是将战场转移到了发展中国家而已。又比如激进的外科手术师或者化疗师大力鼓吹超高强度治疗方式也是伤害了一代人。现在我们了解了癌症的机制,但离真正对所有癌症都能治愈的时代似乎还很遥远,而且癌症本身就源自我们自己的一些非常基础的生物机能的基因变异,生与死犹如双生,所以能否真正根除癌症,本身也是一个未知数了。 本书读起来也非常舒服,对人物背景的阐述拿捏得当,不像某些科普书说是讲科学发展但其实全是讲科学家的各种八卦故事。 (展开)
0 有用 hysterical 2020-02-29 11:23:07
超级科普却又不失阅读乐趣的医学巨著,不愧是普利策将得主!
1 有用 MackAFish 2018-04-13 09:38:11
外婆因癌症去世后终于鼓起勇气读了这本书。最深刻的认识是,癌症既是医学/科学问题,也是政治课题,还有着相当重要的经济意义。寻找治疗癌症的方法离不开医生,科学家,游说家,政客,和商人的共同投入。从某种程度上来说,这本书给了我一个和外婆告别的机会,读完之后心理上得到了一定的结束感
1 有用 pluskid 2021-07-25 01:40:48
一部人类与癌症抗争的史诗,真是各种触目惊心,直到二十世纪末人们对癌症的生物机制都还并不了解,治疗和预防的战役中还有各种人类自身造成的各种混乱,例如烟草行业为了利益而打压吸烟与癌症的联系相关的研究和报道这场旷日持久的战争虽然看起来好像落下了帷幕但是其实只是将战场转移到了发展中国家而已。又比如激进的外科手术师或者化疗师大力鼓吹超高强度治疗方式也是伤害了一代人。现在我们了解了癌症的机制,但离真正对所有癌... 一部人类与癌症抗争的史诗,真是各种触目惊心,直到二十世纪末人们对癌症的生物机制都还并不了解,治疗和预防的战役中还有各种人类自身造成的各种混乱,例如烟草行业为了利益而打压吸烟与癌症的联系相关的研究和报道这场旷日持久的战争虽然看起来好像落下了帷幕但是其实只是将战场转移到了发展中国家而已。又比如激进的外科手术师或者化疗师大力鼓吹超高强度治疗方式也是伤害了一代人。现在我们了解了癌症的机制,但离真正对所有癌症都能治愈的时代似乎还很遥远,而且癌症本身就源自我们自己的一些非常基础的生物机能的基因变异,生与死犹如双生,所以能否真正根除癌症,本身也是一个未知数了。 本书读起来也非常舒服,对人物背景的阐述拿捏得当,不像某些科普书说是讲科学发展但其实全是讲科学家的各种八卦故事。 (展开)
0 有用 hysterical 2020-02-29 11:23:07
超级科普却又不失阅读乐趣的医学巨著,不愧是普利策将得主!
1 有用 MackAFish 2018-04-13 09:38:11
外婆因癌症去世后终于鼓起勇气读了这本书。最深刻的认识是,癌症既是医学/科学问题,也是政治课题,还有着相当重要的经济意义。寻找治疗癌症的方法离不开医生,科学家,游说家,政客,和商人的共同投入。从某种程度上来说,这本书给了我一个和外婆告别的机会,读完之后心理上得到了一定的结束感