具体描述
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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作者简介
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.
目录信息
Prologue 1
Part 1 "Of blacke cholor, without boyling" 9
Part 2 An Impatient War 105
Part 3 "Will you turn me out if I can't get better?" 191
Part 4 Prevention is the Cure 235
Part 5 "A Distorted Version of Our Normal Selves" 335
Part 6 The Fruits of Long Endeavors 393
Atossa's War 461
Acknowledgments 471
Notes 473
Glossary 533
Selected Bibliography 537
Photograph Credits 543
Index 545
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读后感
本书的作者有一个非常有禅意的名字，悉达多，与释迦牟尼本人一个名字。相同的名字之外，两者都在往生者和现世人中穿梭，试图捕捉生死无常的真相。读《众病之王-癌症传》有一个多月，被这个疾病的各种意向俘虏。它带来的表象与隐喻，历史与现在，雄心与挫败，民生与政治，孜孜不...
评分 评分还没地方买，中信出版的书以图快为重点，翻译的书评差的一塌糊涂，以前看过的《黑天鹅》<《货币崛起》等十几本图书都翻译的极差，大段漏译，错译。 不过佛格森的《帝国》翻译的尚可。我习惯拿着中文译本听英语语音版。等我读完再评价翻译水平。
评分 评分“……可以认为癌症在试图仿效一个再生器官；或者更令人不安的是在仿效一个再生的有机体。其对永生不死的追求反映了我们自己的追求，埋藏在我们的胚胎和器官重生中的一种追求。有一天，如果癌症成功了，它将产生一个比其宿主更加完美的生命，具有不死的特性和增殖的动力。...
用户评价
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？
评分这个作者竟然不是native speaker!!! 不过他的句子确实是异常工整啊！！膜拜 但书的最后还是比较啰嗦。。
评分嗯，以后如果遇到别人求我推荐一本非虚构读物，不要太学术也不要太肤浅，大家都能读且都觉得好看的，就是这本了。不知道中译本翻得如何。
评分都说文学就是人学，读完此书意识到医学也是人学。Mukherjee似乎特别擅长抓住科学研究发展与时代背景之间的关系，而刻画一个个人物时又入骨般有力。读到War on Cancer折射出的坚定的信念与空虚的狂热，读到禁烟运动与烟草公司斡旋的艰难曲折，读到在理解癌症的基因基础之路上的抽丝剥茧，总忍不住眼红鼻酸。然而同样让我印象深刻的是书中一个个的人，从Larger than life的化疗之父Farber到无数被癌症改变了人生的病人。疾病可以成为隐喻，正是在于疾病作为一个独特的透镜反射出的人性。
评分癌症诊治的古往今来。修辞文雅，用典繁复。历史记载和作者亲身接触的病例的交错出现，让读者持续保持关心。可以作为《不朽的海拉细胞》之后的深度阅读。
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