El Emperador de Todos Los Males: Una Biografía del Cáncer / The Emperor of All Maladies

Mukherjee, Siddhartha

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Mukherjee, Siddhartha

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9786073196512

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Uno de los mejores libros del Siglo XXI según el New York Times
"Una magistral historia de la investigación sobre el cáncer" -Publishers Weekly

Esta es la historia más compleja de una de las enfermedades más extendidas de nuestro tiempo una crónica completa del cáncer desde sus orígenes hasta los modernos tratamientos que han surgido gracias a un siglo de investigación, ensayos y pequeños avances trascendentales en muchos lugares distintos. Al mismo tiempo es una reflexión sobre la enfermedad, la ética médica y la compleja relación entre los oncólogos y sus pacientes. La empatía que muestra Mukherjee hacia los enfermos de cáncer y sus familias, así como hacia los médicos 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.

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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.

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Produktinformasjon

ISBN/Varenr: 9786073196512
Utgivelsesdato: 07.12.2021
Utgivelsesår: 2021
Forlag: Prh Grupo Editorial
Innbinding: Heftet
Språk: Spansk
Personer: Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Litteraturtype: Faglitteratur
Emne: Medical / Nursing
Målgruppe: Voksne
Aldersgrense: 0
Opplag: 0
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Illustrert: Nei
Sider: 688