El emperador de todos los males: Una biografa del cncer / The Emperor of All Maladies (Spanish Edition)

Una magistral historia de la investigacin sobre el cncer" -Publishers Weekly Esta es la historia ms compleja de una de las enfermedades ms extendidas de nuestro tiempo una crnica completa del cncer desde sus orgenes hasta los modernos tratamientos que han surgido gracias a un siglo de investigacin, ensayos y pequeos avances trascendentales en muchos lugares distintos. Al mismo tiempo es una reflexin sobre la enfermedad, la tica mdica y la compleja relacin entre los onclogos y sus pacientes. La empata que muestra Mukherjee hacia los enfermos de cncer y sus familias, as como hacia los mdicos 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 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 cancerfrom 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 biologists precision, a historians perspective, and a biographers passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived withand perished fromfor 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 Mukherjees own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through fiercely demanding regimens in order to surviveand 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.