Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

15 reviews

rhubarbpi3's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

This was such a good book! So informative, tho I felt it dragged a tad in the final quarter and I wish it had focused a bit more on the historical part because I found that fascinating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Child death, Gore, Death, Drug use, and Terminal illness

angievansprang's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I’m not usually too into nonfiction, but apparently as a science/medicine nerd, this worked perfect for me. Mukherjee has a way of weaving a vivid timeline of cancer through many smaller, narrative stories that leave you caring for each “character”, though most of them were assuredly real people. I loved how this book explored the political & legal movements that were sidelining the scientific battle against cancer. A lot of these occurrences were not things I was previously aware of or taught in school. A very interesting read, especially if you are a science and/or medicine nerd like me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Death

Moderate: Blood

vmjanek's review

challenging informative slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Child death, and Cancer

dmturner's review

challenging dark informative slow-paced

5.0

"Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves. We can rid ourselves of cancer, then, onlly as much as we can rid ourselves of the processes in our physiology that depend on growth - aging, regeneration, healing, reproduction." (462)

A thorough and very readable history of cancer and its treatment through history, from the viewpoint of surgery, chemotherapy, and cell biology. It is also incidentally an enlightening analysis of the institutional and structural problems in science that can interfere with treatment. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Cancer

aploinard's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

lochlyn's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Medical content

standardissuecat's review

informative inspiring slow-paced

3.0

Quite slow and it's easy to get caught up in the details. I loved the personal stories, but the biological detail a little less. It would be great for anyone who has a relative with cancer in order to learn about the disease. I also enjoyed the historical lens on this biological topic.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Cancer, Medical content, Death, and Chronic illness

gkgkgk's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Cancer

Moderate: Grief and Vomit

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Cancer, Terminal illness, Death, Medical content, Child death, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Drug use, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Addiction

Minor: Sexism, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Homophobia, Death of parent, Excrement, Racism, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Abortion, and Classism

Eugenics mentioned in passing.

melv32's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Cancer, and Terminal illness