The Emperor of All Maladies

Deeply interesting and humane book about the work of an eminent brain surgeon.

on HN, 2016

Always fascinating on how we take some things for granted such as blood transfusion came along in first place.

on HN, 2022

Beautiful look into the most elusive disease of our generation. Mukherjee provides a biography of cancer.

on HN, 2013

This book describes how hundreds of people tried (and failed) to cure cancer over *millennia*. It spends a lot of time talking about how the modern approach, which works surprisingly well, was developed by Sidney Farber and others through great effort and a lot of good science.

on HN, 2025

A very well written narrative of medicine's fight against cancer (though the author also goes into detail into other aspects of pre-modern medicine) that really executes on explaining how modern day cancer treatment came to be and what are the probable next steps towards a cure.

on HN, 2021

I put this off because I'm not very interested in medicine. It was a mistake, this is one of the most well written non fiction books I've ever read.

on HN, 2016

Amazing portrait and biography of cancer. It outlines the history of cancer, chemotherapy, surgeries and the drugs use to treat so many patients who gave their lives for cancer science.

on HN, 2017