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WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011'Profound, eloquent and searching'SUNDAY TIMES'Essential reading'INDEPENDENT'Masterly'GUARDIAN'Extraordinary'NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FARRiveting, audacious and now more urgent than ever in this vast update, The Emperor of All Maladies is a masterpiece.The story of cancer is a human one - a tale of chance discoveries, seized opportunities and human endurance. From innovative early surgeries to the Curies' ultimately tragic work with radiation; from Sidney Farber's hugely risky discovery of chemotherapy to the author's treatment of his own patients, The Emperor of All Maladies is a profound and revelatory portrait of an enigmatic disease humans have lived with, and perished from, for more than five thousand years.In this updated edition of Siddhartha Mukherjee's instant classic, four new chapters reveal what has changed in the universe of cancer in the years since the book was first published. With moving eloquence, he offers an insight into our evolving understanding of cancer's causes and the emerging, revolutionary new treatments that might shape its future, including those that Mukherjee himself has helped devise.'This elegantly written overview allows us to look a once whispered-about illness squarely in the eye'INDEPENDENT'The notion of "popular science" doesn't come close to describing this achievement. It is literature'OBSERVER

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Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer-Preisträger und Autor des Bestsellers ¿Der König aller Krankheiten: Krebs - eine Biographie¿, fragt sich in seinem TED Book, welchen Gesetzen die Medizin gehorcht. Diese Frage begleitete den Arzt Siddhartha Mukherjee über viele Jahre und mit der Zeit konnte er die wesentlichen Prinzipien der Medizin ausmachen und benennen. Dabei geht es beispielsweise um die wichtige Rolle der Intuition beim Erstellen von Diagnosen. Reich an faszinierenden historischen Details und Erfahrungen aus der modernen Medizin ermöglicht Mukherjees Buch uns ein ganz neues Verständnis von Medizin. Ein wichtiges Buch für Ärzte und Patienten.

An epic, dazzling history of the idea that defines us.From Gregor Mendel's pea plants to the discovery of DNA and the CRISPR revolution in gene-editing, The Gene tells the story of how we came to understand heredity - to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans - land how that knowledge now allows us to rewrite life itself. Siddhartha Mukherjee combines scientific insight with personal history, weaving in his own family's struggles with mental illness to explore the moral frontiers of genetics.This is science writing of the highest order, humane, lyrical, and profound, showing how the study of genes illuminates both our biological destiny and our deepest hopes.'Siddhartha Mukherjee is the perfect guide to genome science' Bill Gates'Thrilling and comprehensive' Sunday Times