The Emperor of All Maladies is 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.

《百病之王》是一部气势恢宏、极具人性的癌症“传记”，从数千年前第一次出现到二十世纪治愈、控制和征服癌症的史诗般战斗，再到对癌症本质的全新理解。医师、研究员、获奖科学作家悉达多·穆克吉以细胞生物学家的精准、历史学家的视角和传记作家的激情研究癌症。结果是一个惊人的清晰和雄辩的编年史的疾病，人类已经生活和死亡超过5000年。