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"L'imperatore del male" è la storia dell'epica lotta contro il cancro. La cronaca degli sforzi per debellare una malattia antica un tempo clandestina, quasi da non nominare che oggi è un'entità multiforme, pervasa di una profonda valenza metaforica, medica, scientifica e politica. Questa "biografia" vuole comprenderne la personalità e demistificarne il comportamento per capire se sia possibile sradicarla per sempre dai nostri corpi e dalla nostra società. Premio Pulitzer nel 2011, "L'imperatore del male" è un libro rigoroso, animato dalla scrittura ammaliante e dalla tensione narrativa di un autore straordinario, ma anche dalla pietas di un grande medico. Nato come diario di un anno in ospedale, racconta di vittorie e sconfitte, di offensive seguite da altre offensive, di eroismo e superbia, di spirito di sopravvivenza e capacità di recupero; e, inevitabilmente, dei feriti, dei condannati, dei dimenticati, dei caduti.
- ISBN: 8804727993
- Casa Editrice: Mondadori
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- Data di uscita: 04-03-2020
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Every year there's always one non-fiction book that the entire literate world raves about and that I hate. In 2009 it was Richard Holmes's "The Age of Wonder", the following year it was "The Emperor of All Maladies". Universally admired, winner of a Pulitzer prize, this book annoyed me so profoundly Leggi tutto
Anna Cancerina What a masterpiece. With beautiful metaphors, poignant case studies, breath-taking science and delectable literary allusions, Siddhartha Mukherjee takes us on a detailed yet panoramic trip spanning centuries. Probably one of the best science books I have ever read. My favorite parts in Leggi tutto
This is personal. Cancer entered my life uninvited trying to consume the body of my daughter, Aria. It was January 2008 when I heard the words, “We think she has leukemia.” She was four years old. In the prologue of “The Emperor of All Maladies—A Biography of Cancer” by Siddartha Mukherjee, he wrote, Leggi tutto
I think this is a really good and accessible book about cancer that traces the history of our understanding of it. I'm not sure if it qualifies as a biography of cancer per se and I only mentioned this because I kind of feel ambivalent about the anthropomorphizing of cancer through out the book. I f Leggi tutto
I wanted to dislike this book. For personal reasons that I'm not quite ready to talk about yet, I really wanted this book to fall apart, to fail in its communication of the science of cancer. The longer it went on, the harder I looked for reasons to deduct a star from its rating. But I simply couldn Leggi tutto
Most of us are touched by Cancer at some time in our lives, whether it be via a friend or a family member, or we may suffer from Cancer ourselves. The experience may be fleeting, or our lives may be obliterated. The Emperor of all Maladies – A Biography of Cancer the Pulitzer Prize winning book by D Leggi tutto
As someone with a budding interest in diseases- whether chronic, acute, or intermittent- I immediately purchased this book for my library as soon as it was published. I anticipated a similarity to a favorite book of 2010, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, but this book dives much deeper into the Leggi tutto
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