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
writing discovery quality
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
cancer writing ideas
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.
cancer character writing
I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?
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.
writing paper physicians
I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.
writing thinking firsts
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
design eradicate laboratory
What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
ageing major overall rising trend
There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't dying of other things, so we're dying of cancer.
link seems
We don't know why, but pancreatic cancer has a very interesting physiological link to depression. There seems to be a deep link, and we don't know what it is.
investment research science technology
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.
expectation hope life mean means medically sit
What does it mean to be an oncologist? It means that you get to sit in at a moment of another person's life that is so hyper-acute, and not just because they're medically ill. It's also a moment of hope and expectation and concern.
cancer moving connections
There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.
simple medicine realising
When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.
cancer might way
A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.