Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbytarian Hospital. A former Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford (where he received a PhD studying cancer-causing viruses) and from Harvard Medical School. His laboratory focuses on discovering new cancer drugs using innovative biological methods. Mukherjee trained in cancer medicine at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School and was on the staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published articles and commentary in such journals as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron and the Journal of Clinical Investigation and in publications such as the New York Times and the New Republic. His work was nominated for Best American Science Writing, 2000 (edited by James Gleick). He lives in Boston and New York with his wife, Sarah Sze, an artist, and with his daughter, Leela.
发表于2024-11-22
The Emperor of All Maladies 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
本书的题记上说,美国1/3的女性和1/2的男性会得癌症。这样算来,一对夫妻终生不得癌症的概率仅为1/3,如再考虑双方的父母,一个人在一生中都不接触癌症患者的概率不会超过1/27。中国的数据和美国或有差异,但癌症早已是仅次于心脑血管病的国人第二大死因。考虑到癌症患者的痛苦...
评分医学就是医学,没什么中外东西。像癌症这种病,发现它对抗它的必定是一个充满活力充满基础发明创造和认识能力的社会。不单是医学的发展,包括化学、生物学甚至物理学等等各种学科的交融才能从多个角度对这种可怕的病症展开作战,从手术到放疗到化疗到基因攻击,挽救了无数人的...
评分 评分整个阅读过程中我的感情十分复杂,时常会回想起当初在医院照顾爸爸的日子。 这本书写得很通俗很易懂,梳理了人类对抗癌症的历史。在我看来有几个面,从癌症角度,从科研角度,从病人角度,从医生角度,无论从哪个角度来看都有很深的感触。 有时候,不是我们没有努力,而是对手...
评分印度裔美国医生悉达多•穆克吉曾经在波士顿为一位腹部癌症患者进行治疗,这位病人曾接受化疗,但又复发了,不得不再次接受治疗,她说,“我愿意继续治疗,但是,我必须知道我在对抗的敌人是什么”。从某种意义上来说,穆克吉历时6年完成的《众病之王》一书,就是通过回溯这一...
图书标签: 科普 癌症 医学 普利策奖 科学 生命 cancer science
Starred Review. Mukherjee's debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee's formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)
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评分cancer as metaphor. 把目标定为延长生命而非终结死亡
评分除了用科普的笔触去写人类对癌症认知的历史,作者还调查了“和癌症做斗争”的政治和社会运作。几乎是想象中科普作者的最佳语气。就像之前读过这本书的一位朋友说的,在我们这个时代大概每个人都会有机会旁观或亲历对抗癌症的战斗。
评分推荐购买。知识量很大,有机会再度一遍。
评分从最后几章看来,因为长久以来积累的大量数据,对人类身体前所未有和不断深入的了解,还有现在越来越给力的计算机,癌症也没那么可怕了。艾滋病不是其实也解决的差不多了么?
The Emperor of All Maladies 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书