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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
I started this book per the recommendation of one by my friends in nursing school and started it early into my final year of the program as I traveled for my clinical in public health. It is fitting that I am finishing this now in the last weeks of school before I graduate with a second bachelor's degree.
This book is deeply informative on the history of cancer and oncology especially within the United States medical system. While technical on the science and technology that was developed over time to treat cancer, it is also humanistic in its approach. The narrative always turns back to individuals who faced this disease personally or professionally as well as examining larger cultural shifts in the approach to science and medicine which was fascinating to me, as someone who initially studied polical science and international studies.
This book is dense and each chapter is packed with information, but it will stick with me for a long time both as a healthcare professional as well as a human living in the current time.
This book is deeply informative on the history of cancer and oncology especially within the United States medical system. While technical on the science and technology that was developed over time to treat cancer, it is also humanistic in its approach. The narrative always turns back to individuals who faced this disease personally or professionally as well as examining larger cultural shifts in the approach to science and medicine which was fascinating to me, as someone who initially studied polical science and international studies.
This book is dense and each chapter is packed with information, but it will stick with me for a long time both as a healthcare professional as well as a human living in the current time.