Siddhartha Mukherjee is Indian American doctor Siddhartha a cancer doctor Mukherjee's book on cancer received the Pulitzer Prize in the category general non-fiction.Mukherjee's book, the Emperor of all maladies, tells the history of the disease and how the war is fought against you by doctors.
The India-born doctor teaches medicine and is a cancer doctor at the Columbia University Medical Center.
Rhodes Scholar, Mukherjee is also an excellent science writer.
The Pulitzer award citation described the Emperor all maladies as "elegant request, at one time clinical and personal, in the long history of an insidious disease that affects breakthroughs, even medical science, despite treatment".
The Pulitzer in general non-fiction category is a $10,000 (￡ 6,152).
The criticism, acclaimed book was described as a "literary thriller with cancer as protagonist".
Detailing the long history of illness and the battles to conquer defeat through case studies, the book offers an insight into the future of cancer treatments.
"From the Persian Queen Atossa, malignant breast, to the 19 recipients of the primitive radiotherapy and chemotherapy's Mukherjee Leukemia patients, Carla, whose Greek Slave is cut off the Emperor of all diseases of the people, by strongly demanding therapies to survive and our understanding of this iconic increase disease soldered have" according to the information about the book at the Pulitzer Web site.
The book, the site says is "great, deeply human biography of cancer".
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