El Emperador de Todos Los Males: Una Biograf?a del C?ncer / The Emperor of All Maladies

Uno de los mejores libros del Siglo XXI seg?n el New York Times

"Una magistral historia de la investigaci?n sobre el c?ncer" -Publishers Weekly

Esta es la historia m?s compleja de una de las enfermedades m?s extendidas de nuestro tiempo una cr?nica completa del c?ncer desde sus or?genes hasta los modernos tratamientos que han surgido gracias a un siglo de investigaci?n, ensayos y peque?os avances trascendentales en muchos lugares distintos. Al mismo tiempo es una reflexi?n sobre la enfermedad, la ?tica m?dica y la compleja relaci?n entre los onc?logos y sus pacientes. La empat?a que muestra Mukherjee hacia los enfermos de c?ncer y sus familias, as? como hacia los m?dicos que muy a menudo tan pocas esperanzas les pueden ofrecer, hacen de este libro un relato lleno de humanidad sobre una enfermedad compleja e inasible.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, 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.

Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: 12/07/2021
Pages: 688
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9786073196512
Language: Spanish

About the Author
Siddhartha Mukherjee es profesor de medicina en la Universidad de Columbia, y oncólogo en su hospital universitario. Ganador de una beca Rhodes, se graduó en la Universidad de Stanford y en la de Oxford, para licenciarse en Medicina en la Universidad de Harvard.

Ha publicado artículos en Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times y The New Republic y su libro El emperador de todos los males (Debate, 2014) fue ganador del Premio Pulitzer en la categoría de no ficción en el 2011.

Actualmente, vive en Nueva York con su esposa y sus hijas.