Written by cancer physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies is a stunning combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms our understanding of cancer and much of the world around us. Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a novelist's richness of detail, a historian's range, and a biographer's passion.The story of cancer is one of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance, paternalism, and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out "war against cancer." It's a story of science and scientists, of centuries of discoveries, of setbacks and victories and deaths, told through the eyes of Mukherjee's predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary.From the Persian Queen Atoss

印度裔美國醫生，科學傢和作傢。

哥倫比亞大學醫學中心癌癥醫師、哥倫比亞大學醫學院副教授。

悉達多•穆剋吉一路就讀瞭斯坦福大學、牛津大學以及哈佛大學藥學院，在牛津大學獲得緻癌病毒研究的博士學位，並在讀書期間獲得過羅氏奬學金。他的實驗室主要緻力於運用新型生物方法開發抗癌藥物。他已經在《自然》、《新英格蘭醫學期刊》、《神經元》、《臨床調查期刊》等期刊，以及《紐約時報》、《新共和國周刊》等報紙上發錶過文章和評論。