Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjeeis an Indian-born American physician, scientist, and writer best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was the basis of a 2015 film documentary, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, by Ken Burns for PBS Television. It was named one of the 100 most influential books written in English since 1923 by the magazine Time and one of the 100...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionScientist
CountryIndia
book writing difficult-questions
Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.
technology leader research
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.
mind needs pharmacology
Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.
home feels
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.
cancer years ideas
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
cancer believe india
I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.
writing paper physicians
I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.
stress thinking trying
I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.
summer two coincidence
One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
cancer chaos organized
Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
pain attitude cancer
A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.
cancer years taxonomy
It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.
cancer cells mirrors
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
repeating-history repeats
History repeats, but science reverberates.