Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Song of the Cell, The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. In 2023, he was elected as a new member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters. Visit his website at: SiddharthaMukherjee.com.
"Mukherjee brings an impressive balance of empathy and dispassion
to this instantly essential piece of medical journalism."
--Time "A meticulously researched, panoramic history . . . What
makes Mukherjee's narrative so remarkable is that he imbues decades
of painstaking laboratory investigation with the suspense of a
mystery novel and urgency of a thriller. . . . He possesses a
striking gift for carving some of science's most abstruse concepts
into forms as easily understood and reconfigured as a child's
wooden blocks."
--The Boston Globe "Riveting and powerful . . . Mukherjee's
extraordinary book might stimulate a wider discussion of how to
wisely allocate our precious health care resources."
--San Francisco Chronicle "Remarkable . . . The reader devours this
fascinating book . . . Mukherjee is a clear and determined writer.
. . . An unusually humble, insightful book."
--Los Angeles Times "Extraordinary . . . So often physician writers
attempt the delicacy of using their patients as a mirror to their
own humanity. Mukherjee does the opposite. His book is not built to
show us the good doctor struggling with tough decisions, but
ourselves."
--John Freeman, NPR "Now and then a writer comes along who helps us
fathom both the intricacies of a scientific specialty and its human
meaning. Lewis Thomas, Sherwin Nuland, and Oliver Sacks come to
mind. Add to their company Siddhartha Mukherjee."
--Elle "Rich and engrossing . . . With the perceptiveness and
patience of a true scientist, [Mukherjee] begins to weave these
individual threads into a coherent and engrossing narrative."
--The Economist "A brilliant, riveting history of the disease . . .
Threaded throughout, and propelling the narrative forward, are the
affecting tales of Mukherjee's own patients."
--Entertainment Weekly "Ambitious . . . Mukherjee has a
storyteller's flair and a gift for translating complex medical
concepts into simple language."
--The Wall Street Journal "Cancer has never been as fully explored
as in Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee's fascinating and moving
history."
--The Daily Beast "With epic scope and passionate pen, The Emperor
of All Maladies boldly addresses, then breaks down the monolith of
disease."
--The Onion A.V. Club "Informative, elegant, comprehensive, and
lucid."
--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Mukherjee's elegant prose animates the
science."
--Bloomberg News "Brilliant and riveting."
--Associated Press "[A] brilliant book."
--Larry King "A magnificent book."
--Sanjay Gupta, M.D., CNN "An ambitious scientific, political, and
cultural history."
--Slate.com "Intensely readable."
--New York Post "Impressive."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer "Mukherjee . . . writes with supreme
authority."
-- The Seattle Times "Mukherjee makes us understand that along with
our terrible losses, great gains have been made."
--Newsday "Eminently readable . . . A surprisingly accessible and
encouraging narrative."
--Booklist (starred review) "A beautifully written account of the
ingenuity, hubris, courage, and utter confusion humankind has
brought to its attempts to grapple with cancer."
--Maclean's "Future biographers and historians of the disease will
labor from deep with the long shadow cast by Siddhartha Mukherjee's
remarkable The Emperor of All Maladies. . . . A vivid and
profoundly engaging read."
--BookPage "Sweeping . . . Mukherjee's formidable intelligence and
compassion produce a stunning account."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Siddhartha Mukherjee's The
Emperor of All Maladies left me shaken, fascinated, and not
depressed, because he gives a face to our old enemy, cancer."
--Emma Donoghue, author of Room "Sid Mukherjee's book is a pleasure
to read, if that is the right word. . . . His book is the clearest
account I have read on this subject. With The Emperor of All
Maladies, he joins that small fraternity of practicing doctors who
cannot just talk about their profession but write about it."
--Tony Judt, author of The Memory Chalet "Rarely have the science
and poetry of illness been so elegantly braided together as they
are in this erudite, engrossing, kind book."
--Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday
Demon "At once learned and skeptical, unsentimental and humane, The
Emperor of All Maladies is that rarest of things--a noble
book."
--David Rieff, author of Swimming in a Sea of Death "A magisterial,
wise, and deeply human piece of writing."
--Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the
Chains "The Emperor of All Maladies beautifully describes the
nature of cancer from a patient's perspective and how basic
research has opened the door to understanding this disease."
--Bert Vogelstein, director, Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins
University "A labor of love . . . as comprehensive as
possible."
--George Canellos, M.D., William Rosenberg Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School "An elegant . . . tour de force. The Emperor
of All Maladies reads like a novel . . . but it deals with real
people and real successes, as well as with the many false notions
and false leads. Not only will the book bring cancer research and
cancer biology to the lay public, it will help attract young
researchers to a field that is at once exciting and heart wrenching
. . . and important."
--Donald Berry, Ph.D., MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of
Texas
Taking a strictly Western approach to the study and treatment of cancer, clinical oncologist Mukherjee presents a comprehensive, fascinating, and informative view of the subject that is part historical treatise, part biography, part memoir, part case study, and part science textbook. Two-time Audie Award winner Stephen Hoye does a great job of conveying all of the nuances of the narrative, which can jump around at times and includes a large number of footnotes. This highly accessible and quality audio production will greatly satisfy audiences liking titles that similarly attempt to humanize otherwise clinical topics, such as Seth Mnookin's The Panic Virus, Mary Roach's Stiff, and Atul Gawande's Complications. [See Major Audio Releases, LJ 10/1/10; the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Scribner hc was a 2010 LJ Best Consumer Health Book and a 2010 LJ Best Sci-Tech Book; the Scribner pb will publish in September 2011.-Ed.]-Nicole A. Cooke, Montclair State Univ. Lib., NJ (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
"Mukherjee brings an impressive balance of empathy and dispassion
to this instantly essential piece of medical journalism."
--Time
"A meticulously researched, panoramic history . . . What
makes Mukherjee's narrative so remarkable is that he imbues decades
of painstaking laboratory investigation with the suspense of a
mystery novel and urgency of a thriller. . . . He possesses a
striking gift for carving some of science's most abstruse concepts
into forms as easily understood and reconfigured as a child's
wooden blocks."
--The Boston Globe "Riveting and powerful . . . Mukherjee's
extraordinary book might stimulate a wider discussion of how to
wisely allocate our precious health care resources."
--San Francisco Chronicle "Remarkable . . . The reader
devours this fascinating book . . . Mukherjee is a clear and
determined writer. . . . An unusually humble, insightful book."
--Los Angeles Times "Extraordinary . . . So often physician
writers attempt the delicacy of using their patients as a mirror to
their own humanity. Mukherjee does the opposite. His book is not
built to show us the good doctor struggling with tough decisions,
but ourselves."
--John Freeman, NPR "Now and then a writer comes along who
helps us fathom both the intricacies of a scientific specialty and
its human meaning. Lewis Thomas, Sherwin Nuland, and Oliver Sacks
come to mind. Add to their company Siddhartha Mukherjee."
--Elle "Rich and engrossing . . . With the perceptiveness and
patience of a true scientist, [Mukherjee] begins to weave these
individual threads into a coherent and engrossing narrative."
--The Economist "A brilliant, riveting history of the disease
. . . Threaded throughout, and propelling the narrative forward,
are the affecting tales of Mukherjee's own patients."
--Entertainment Weekly "Ambitious . . . Mukherjee has a
storyteller's flair and a gift for translating complex medical
concepts into simple language."
--The Wall Street Journal "Cancer has never been as fully
explored as in Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee's fascinating and moving
history."
--The Daily Beast "With epic scope and passionate pen, The
Emperor of All Maladies boldly addresses, then breaks down the
monolith of disease."
--The Onion A.V. Club "Informative, elegant, comprehensive,
and lucid."
--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Mukherjee's elegant prose animates
the science."
--Bloomberg News "Brilliant and riveting."
--Associated Press "[A] brilliant book."
--Larry King "A magnificent book."
--Sanjay Gupta, M.D., CNN "An ambitious scientific,
political, and cultural history."
--Slate.com "Intensely readable."
--New York Post "Impressive."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer "Mukherjee . . . writes with
supreme authority."
-- The Seattle Times "Mukherjee makes us understand that
along with our terrible losses, great gains have been made."
--Newsday "Eminently readable . . . A surprisingly accessible
and encouraging narrative."
--Booklist (starred review) "A beautifully written
account of the ingenuity, hubris, courage, and utter confusion
humankind has brought to its attempts to grapple with cancer."
--Maclean's "Future biographers and historians of the disease
will labor from deep with the long shadow cast by Siddhartha
Mukherjee's remarkable The Emperor of All Maladies. . . . A vivid
and profoundly engaging read."
--BookPage "Sweeping . . . Mukherjee's formidable
intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Siddhartha
Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies left me shaken, fascinated,
and not depressed, because he gives a face to our old enemy,
cancer."
--Emma Donoghue, author of Room "Sid Mukherjee's book is a
pleasure to read, if that is the right word. . . . His book is the
clearest account I have read on this subject. With The Emperor of
All Maladies, he joins that small fraternity of practicing doctors
who cannot just talk about their profession but write about
it."
--Tony Judt, author of The Memory Chalet "Rarely have the
science and poetry of illness been so elegantly braided together as
they are in this erudite, engrossing, kind book."
--Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of The
Noonday Demon "At once learned and skeptical, unsentimental and
humane, The Emperor of All Maladies is that rarest of things--a
noble book."
--David Rieff, author of Swimming in a Sea of Death "A
magisterial, wise, and deeply human piece of writing."
--Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and
Bury the Chains "The Emperor of All Maladies beautifully
describes the nature of cancer from a patient's perspective and how
basic research has opened the door to understanding this
disease."
--Bert Vogelstein, director, Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins
University "A labor of love . . . as comprehensive as
possible."
--George Canellos, M.D., William Rosenberg Professor of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School "An elegant . . . tour de
force. The Emperor of All Maladies reads like a novel . . . but it
deals with real people and real successes, as well as with the many
false notions and false leads. Not only will the book bring cancer
research and cancer biology to the lay public, it will help attract
young researchers to a field that is at once exciting and heart
wrenching . . . and important."
--Donald Berry, Ph.D., MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of
Texas
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