书名：The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 众病之王：癌症传
作者：Siddhartha Mukherjee
出版社名称：Fourth Estate
出版时间：2011
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780007250929
商品尺寸：12.9 x 3.8 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：400

这是一场无法选择的战争
四千年的斗争史，诠释癌症的前世今生
什么是癌？它是怎样产生的？
我们能否战胜？
四千年的斗争史，诠释癌症的前世今生
数千年来，癌与人类如影随形
全球每年约800万人死于癌症。
我国居民一生罹患癌症概率为22%，因癌症死亡率为13%。
每年新发肿瘤病例约312万例，死亡病例达270万例。
全国每分钟有6人被诊断为恶性肿瘤，
每7人中会有1人因癌症死亡。
面对癌症，没人能轻言治愈
为了能追上这种疾病的步伐，人类一而再、再而三地创造，学习新知识，扬弃旧策略。我们执着地与癌症进行抗争，时而精明、时而绝望、时而夸张、时而猛烈、时而疯狂、时而凛然。这场不可避免的战争，已经持续了千年。
知己知彼，百战百胜
人老了并不一定会得癌症；但某些饮食生活习惯、职场工作环境，以及细菌病毒感染等都有可能增加罹癌风险。如何降低这些风险，是我们可以、也应该做到的。了解癌症的特性及肇因，才能通晓各种癌症的预防之道，以及不同疗法的长处与限制；对于层出不穷的癌症新闻，也才有能力辨别真假。
★2011年普利策文学奖作品
★2011年《英国卫报》新人奖得主
★2010年《纽约时报》年度好书
★《时代》周刊评选非小说类作品之一

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011
Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011
Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize
In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years.
The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer”. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary.
From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla,The Emperor of All Maladiesis about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge.
Riveting and magesterial,The Emperor of All Maladiesprovides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer《众病之王：癌症传》是一部饱含人文主义色彩的社科文化著作。作者悉达多·穆克吉历时六年，凭借翔实的历史资料、专业文献、媒体报道、患者专访等众多信息，向读者阐述了癌症的起源与发展，人类对抗癌症、预防癌症的斗争史。作者借由医学、文化、社会、政治等视角透露出一种社会化关怀；生动、文学性的写作手法展现出鲜活的人物和历史事件，让读者为之动容。
The Emperor of All Maladiesis a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteenth-century recipients of primitive radiation and chemotherapy to Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla,The Emperor of All Maladiesis about the people who have soldiered through fiercely demanding regimens in order to survive—and to increase our understanding of this iconic disease. Riveting, urgent, and surprising,The Emperor of All Maladiesprovides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

悉达多·穆克吉（Siddhartha Mukherjee），印度裔美国医生、科学家和作家。哥伦比亚大学医学中心癌症医师和研究员、哥伦比亚大学医学院副教授。悉达多·穆克吉毕业于斯坦福大学、牛津大学和哈佛大学医学院，在牛津大学获得致癌病毒研究的博士学位，并在读书期间荣获罗氏奖学金。他的实验室主要致力于运用新型生物方法开发抗癌药物。他曾在《自然》《新英格兰医学期刊》《神经元》《临床研究杂志》等期刊，以及《纽约时报》《新共和》等报刊上发表过文章和评论。
Siddhartha Mukherjee M.D., Ph.D., is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. A Rhodes Scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and from Harvard Medical School and was a Fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and an attending physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles inNature,New England Journal of Medicine,Neuron, theJournal of Clinical Investigation,The New York Times, andThe New Republic.
He lives in New York with his wife and daughter.

Prologue
Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.
—William Shakespeare,
Hamlet
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. . . . Doctors treat diseases, but they also treat people, and this precondition of their professional existence sometimes pulls them in two directions at once.
—June Goodfield
On the morning of May 19, 2004, Carla Reed, a thirty-year-old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, Massachusetts, a mother of three young children, woke up in bed with a headache. “Not just any headache,” she would recall later, “but a sort of numbness in my head. The kind of numbness that instantly tells you that something is terribly wrong.”
Something had been terribly wrong for nearly a month. Late in April, Carla had discovered a few bruises on her back. They had suddenly appeared one morning, like strange stigmata, then grown and vanished over the next month, leaving large map-shaped marks on her back. Almost indiscernibly, her gums had begun to turn white. By early May, Carla, a vivacious, energetic woman accustomed to spending hours in the classroom chasing down five- and six-year-olds, could barely walk up a flight of stairs. Some mornings, exhausted and unable to stand up, she crawled down the hallways of her house on all fours to get from one room to another. She slept fitfully for twelve or fourteen hours a day, then woke up feeling so overwhelmingly tired that she needed to haul herself back to the couch again to sleep.
Carla and her husband saw a general physician and a nurse twice during those four weeks, but she returned each time with no tests and without a diagnosis. Ghostly pains appeared and disappeared in her bones. The doctor fumbled about for some explanation. Perhaps it was a migraine, she suggested, and asked Carla to try some aspirin. The aspirin simply worsened the bleeding in Carla’s white gums.
Outgoing, gregarious, and ebullient, Carla was more puzzled than worried about her waxing and waning illness. She had never been seriously ill in her life. The hospital was an abstract place for her; she had never met or consulted a medical specialist, let alone an oncologist. She imagined and concocted various causes to explain her symptoms—overwork, depression, dyspepsia, neuroses, insomnia. But in the end, something visceral arose inside her—a seventh sense—that told Carla something acute and catastrophic was brewing within her body.
On the afternoon of May 19, Carla dropped her three children with a neighbor and drove herself back to the clinic, demanding to have some blood tests. Her doctor ordered a routine test to check her blood counts. As the technician drew a tube of blood from her vein, he looked closely at the blood’s color, obviously intrigued. Watery, pale, and dilute, the liquid that welled out of Carla’s veins hardly resembled blood.
Carla waited the rest of the day without any news. At a fish market the next morning, she received a call.