Cancer is increasingly a modern way of life, not just a way of death, and being a “cancer victim” and a “cancer survivor” both contribute to sufferers’ sense of who they are.īut not even cancer defines personal identity as powerfully as your genes are now thought to do. Modern cancer medicine is science, but its therapies are delivered at the bedside to patients, sometimes for many years. The earlier book includes stories about his own patients (Mukherjee was then an oncologist at Massachusetts general hospital, now he is a staff physician at Columbia University Medical Center in New York). First, he repeats the cinematic cross-cutting of the personal and the scientific that structured his magnificent history of cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies (2011). S iddhartha Mukherjee calls his history of genetics “intimate” for two reasons.
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