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The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2010

Long read, about 592 pagesPulitzer Prize, 2011.

A "biography" of cancer: four thousand years of fighting it.

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  1. Why call it a "biography" of cancer? Did that framing work for you?
  2. Which turn in the long fight against cancer stayed with you?
  3. What does the book say about how medicine makes progress, and at whose cost?

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