The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer » (Unabridged CD)

Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and The New Republic. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters.

A magnificent, beautifully written epic "biography" of cancer—-in the tradition of Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon, this is a brilliant exploration of the past, present, and future of a complex disease that defines us and our time.

The New York Times - Janet Maslin

…an informative, well-researched study…The Emperor of All Maladies is at its most honest in describing the push-pull dynamics of scientific progress.