Ridib
4 maj 2020
Its one of the best spiritual book about human lyf ...nothing is better thn this one , why i said spiritual i didnt know but Its changes evrythng for me , my lyf will never be same after this
4.5
Biografier
A comprehensive history of cancer – one of the greatest enemies of medical progress – and an insight into its effects and potential cures, by a leading expert on the illness.
In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, 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, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out ‘war against cancer’. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary.
From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge.
Riveting and magesterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.
© 2011 Fourth Estate (Ljudbok): 9780007421114
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 25 augusti 2011
4.5
Biografier
A comprehensive history of cancer – one of the greatest enemies of medical progress – and an insight into its effects and potential cures, by a leading expert on the illness.
In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, 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, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out ‘war against cancer’. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary.
From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge.
Riveting and magesterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.
© 2011 Fourth Estate (Ljudbok): 9780007421114
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 25 augusti 2011
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Ridib
4 maj 2020
Its one of the best spiritual book about human lyf ...nothing is better thn this one , why i said spiritual i didnt know but Its changes evrythng for me , my lyf will never be same after this
Mia
5 juni 2021
Dybt indsigtsfuld, underholdende og velskrevet mammutværk - man gribes af empatien og passionen
Anna Kristina
14 nov. 2021
En otroligt grundlig historia om kampen mot cancer, men fokus på 1800-2005. Ibland kan det bli lite för tekniskt för en som inte är insatt i biologin, men i grunden en väldigt intressant läsning.
Mohamed
23 dec. 2022
This is one of the most beautiful, thought provoking, enthralling and intelligent books that I've read this year. Mukherjee is a scientist, doctor, historian and a semi-poet in the same time. In a very scientific way, and a very poetic way in the same time, he tells the story of cancer as we, humans, have known it since the time of Imhotep who described it meticulously indicating that (no cure) till 21th century where an arsenal of chemotherapeutics, immunotherapeutics, biotherapeutics, radiotherapy and surgical procedures are present to face it. It is a journey...and what a journey!
inge
21 sep. 2022
Absolutely amazing. A real important piece of literature that i genuinely enjoyed listening to. Even though it was a scary confrontation with man kinds greatest illness
Anoop
20 aug. 2020
No
Wojciech
28 juni 2022
Very interesting book, but the lector makes the audiobook unbearable: very monotonous, identical intonation of each single sentence made it practically possible to follow the text, at least for me.
Michael
17 nov. 2020
The narrator voice seems to be computer generated
Nitesh
8 mars 2021
A must read book
Labster
17 sep. 2022
Battles and wars on cancer.
Helhetsbetyg baserat på 219 betyg
Informativ
Smart
Tankeväckande
Ladda ner appen för att vara med i snacket och lämna recensioner.
Visar 10 av 219
Ridib
4 maj 2020
Its one of the best spiritual book about human lyf ...nothing is better thn this one , why i said spiritual i didnt know but Its changes evrythng for me , my lyf will never be same after this
Mia
5 juni 2021
Dybt indsigtsfuld, underholdende og velskrevet mammutværk - man gribes af empatien og passionen
Anna Kristina
14 nov. 2021
En otroligt grundlig historia om kampen mot cancer, men fokus på 1800-2005. Ibland kan det bli lite för tekniskt för en som inte är insatt i biologin, men i grunden en väldigt intressant läsning.
Mohamed
23 dec. 2022
This is one of the most beautiful, thought provoking, enthralling and intelligent books that I've read this year. Mukherjee is a scientist, doctor, historian and a semi-poet in the same time. In a very scientific way, and a very poetic way in the same time, he tells the story of cancer as we, humans, have known it since the time of Imhotep who described it meticulously indicating that (no cure) till 21th century where an arsenal of chemotherapeutics, immunotherapeutics, biotherapeutics, radiotherapy and surgical procedures are present to face it. It is a journey...and what a journey!
inge
21 sep. 2022
Absolutely amazing. A real important piece of literature that i genuinely enjoyed listening to. Even though it was a scary confrontation with man kinds greatest illness
Anoop
20 aug. 2020
No
Wojciech
28 juni 2022
Very interesting book, but the lector makes the audiobook unbearable: very monotonous, identical intonation of each single sentence made it practically possible to follow the text, at least for me.
Michael
17 nov. 2020
The narrator voice seems to be computer generated
Nitesh
8 mars 2021
A must read book
Labster
17 sep. 2022
Battles and wars on cancer.
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