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Als Siddhartha Mukherjee ontdekt dat geestesziekte al twee generaties in zijn familie voorkomt, realiseert hij zich dat ook in hem een spoor van gekte begraven kan liggen. Aan de hand van zijn eigen familiegeschiedenis onderzoekt hij de menselijke erfelijkheid en het effect ervan op onze levens, persoonlijkheden, keuzes en lotsbestemmingen. In weergaloos proza beschrijft hij het eeuwenlange onderzoek naar de erfelijkheidskwestie - van Aristote...

The Emperor of All Maladies" is a magnificently written "biography" of cancer--from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. Riveting and magisterial, the book provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and offers a bold new perspective on the way the human body has been observed and understood for millennia. Photos.

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2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-FictionThe #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick" (Elle). "Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and...

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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 nost...

Paperback edition of the history of cancer, from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control and conquer it, to a radical new understanding of its essence. 'The notion of 'popular science' doesn't come close to describing this achievement. It is literature.' "Observer