Humanely and positively, without shirking physical or moral issues, Mukherjee's scholarly and comprehensive history of cancer, from 5000BC to the present, provides a fascinating glimpse into future treatments and shows how the body and its ailments have been viewed and treated through the centuries. Lucid and never condescending, the closer it gets to the present day the more it reads like the thriller it really is: the hunt for the cause of cancer.
(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2011)
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 71 Winter 2014 ) |
