Ricardo Lombardi

Desculpe a poeira - Sugestões de leituras e outros achados

Uma biografia do câncer

Por Ricardo Lombardi

14/11/2010 | 11h31

O oncologista Siddhartha Mukherjee escreveu "The Emperor of all Maladies -- A Biography of Cancer", recém lançado pela Scribner. O New York Times publicou hoje uma resenha. Um trecho:

"Many doctors become storytellers too, and Mukherjee has undertaken one of the most extraordinary stories in medicine: a history of cancer, which will kill about 600,000 Americans by the end of this year, and more than seven million people around the planet. He frames it as a biography, "an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behavior." It is an epic story that he seems compelled to tell, the way a passionate young priest might attempt a biography of Satan."

O oncologista Siddhartha Mukherjee escreveu "The Emperor of all Maladies -- A Biography of Cancer", recém lançado pela Scribner. O New York Times publicou hoje uma resenha. Um trecho:

"Many doctors become storytellers too, and Mukherjee has undertaken one of the most extraordinary stories in medicine: a history of cancer, which will kill about 600,000 Americans by the end of this year, and more than seven million people around the planet. He frames it as a biography, "an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behavior." It is an epic story that he seems compelled to tell, the way a passionate young priest might attempt a biography of Satan."

O oncologista Siddhartha Mukherjee escreveu "The Emperor of all Maladies -- A Biography of Cancer", recém lançado pela Scribner. O New York Times publicou hoje uma resenha. Um trecho:

"Many doctors become storytellers too, and Mukherjee has undertaken one of the most extraordinary stories in medicine: a history of cancer, which will kill about 600,000 Americans by the end of this year, and more than seven million people around the planet. He frames it as a biography, "an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behavior." It is an epic story that he seems compelled to tell, the way a passionate young priest might attempt a biography of Satan."

O oncologista Siddhartha Mukherjee escreveu "The Emperor of all Maladies -- A Biography of Cancer", recém lançado pela Scribner. O New York Times publicou hoje uma resenha. Um trecho:

"Many doctors become storytellers too, and Mukherjee has undertaken one of the most extraordinary stories in medicine: a history of cancer, which will kill about 600,000 Americans by the end of this year, and more than seven million people around the planet. He frames it as a biography, "an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behavior." It is an epic story that he seems compelled to tell, the way a passionate young priest might attempt a biography of Satan."