The king of all diseases: cancer - a biography
The king of all diseases: Cancer - a biography (English original title: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer ) is a non-fiction book by the American oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee . After being published by Scribner on November 16, 2010 , the book received excellent reviews and numerous prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize for the best non-fiction book in 2011 .
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The book describes the 5000-year history of cancer and the fight against cancer on the basis of historical aspects, such as the first reports on the disease and early surgical methods of healing, processed through more recent individual fates and personal experiences of the author.
reception
“A New York doctor wrote a terrific cultural history of cancer and received the Pulitzer Prize for it. He describes the tumor as a close but evil relative of humans. […] The terrible, many, disparate - Mukherjee copes with it effortlessly. […] "
“Doctors who manage to unravel the history of their specialist discipline with great empathy for both patients and researchers, who write with an eye for detail and the big picture and who, in terms of theory and practice, can draw on all that is available it doesn't often. Siddhartha Mukherjee is such a doctor. The cancer specialist has succeeded in not only writing a story of cancer research in a new way, but rather a story of preoccupation with cancer. Neither laypeople nor experts will put this book, which has just been published in German, down without profit, and only the seriousness of the topic forbids it to be called entertaining. "
Honors
- Knowledge Book of the Year (2012)
- Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction (2011)
- PEN / EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2011)
- Guardian First Book Award (2011)
- Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year (2010)
- New York Times Best Books of the Year (2010)
expenditure
- Siddhartha Mukherjee : The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Scribner, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-4391-0795-9 .
- Siddhartha Mukherjee: The king of all diseases: cancer - a biography. Translated from the English by Barbara Schaden. With a foreword by Fritz Pleitgen . DuMont, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9644-8 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ pulitzer.org: The 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners. Retrieved February 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Der Spiegel: Murderous Brother. Retrieved February 6, 2013 .
- ↑ FAZ: How do you treat if you don't know the cause? Retrieved February 6, 2013 .
- ↑ librarything.com: Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year. Retrieved February 8, 2013 .
- ^ Nytimes.com: The 10 Best Books of 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2013 .