Emperor of all maladies (a biography of cancer), Mukherjee, Siddhartha

Автор: Mukherjee Siddhartha
Название: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
ISBN: 1439170916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781439170915
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 14710 T
Описание: "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.

Автор: Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Название: The Gene
ISBN: 0099584573 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099584575
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 9780 T
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Описание: Spanning the globe and several centuries, this is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. It is also an intimate history of the author`s own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives.

Автор: Mukherjee Siddhartha.
Название: The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
ISBN: 1476784841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476784847
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 11360 T
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Описание: Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine and how understanding these principles can empower us all.
Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, "The Youngest Science," forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a science ? Sciences must have laws statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences?
Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline culminating in "The Laws of Medicine. "In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine.
Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee s signature eloquence and passionate prose, "The Laws of Medicine" is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future."

Автор: Mukherjee, Abir
Название: A Rising Man
ISBN: 1784701343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784701345
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta`s police force. He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was a senior official, and a note in his mouth warns the British to leave India - or else.

Автор: Mukherjee Neel
Название: The Lives of Others
ISBN: 0099554488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099554486
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 8270 T
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Описание: Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel AwardWinner of the Encore AwardShortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureLonglisted for the IMPAC PrizeCalcutta, 1967.

Автор: Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Название: Gene
ISBN: 150115012X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501150128
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 13370 T
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Автор: Mukherjee Siddhartha
Название: Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
ISBN: 1400169178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400169177
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 18720 T
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Автор: Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Название: The Gene
ISBN: 1847922635 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847922632
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 18820 T
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Описание: Spanning the globe and several centuries, this is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. It is also an intimate history - the story of the author`s own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives.