Name: The Laws of Medicine
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Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Type

Physical Book

Author

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781476784847

Synopsis "The Laws of Medicine"

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.

Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a “science”? Sciences must have laws—statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences?

Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question—a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline—culminating in The Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine.

Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee’s signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Siddhartha Mukherjee (New Delhi, India, July 21, 1970) is an Indian-American physician, researcher, and writer, considered one of the greatest scientific communicators and innovative voices in contemporary medicine. He studied Biology at Stanford, was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he earned a D.Phil. in immunology, and graduated in Medicine at Harvard. He is currently an associate professor of Medicine at Columbia University and an oncologist in New York, leading pioneering research on cancer and cell therapies. In addition to his clinical and scientific work, he writes for media such as The New Yorker and The New York Times.

His work The Emperor of All Maladies (2010), a biography of cancer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 and was adapted into a documentary by Ken Burns. He is also the author of The Gene: An Intimate History (2016), which was an international success and finalist for prestigious awards, The Laws of Medicine (2015) and The Song of the Cell (2022), all recognized as benchmarks in the dissemination of modern science. Mukherjee has received numerous accolades, including the Padma Shri (2014, awarded by the government of India), the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science (2019) and the Dr. Ida S. Scudder Socratic Leadership Award (2024). His books, praised for their rigor, humanity, and narrative clarity, have brought medicine and biology closer to millions of readers around the world, consolidating him as an essential figure to understand health and the future of science.

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