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GIF: "Emperor of all Maladies" and "The Gene" -- books by Siddhartha Mukherjee

 

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Can We THINK Our Way Out of Cancer?


Monday
3-27-17
7:00 PM

Public Lecture
Gusman Concert Hall
Public Invited

“Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost. . . . Thanks to Dr. Mukherjee’s remarkably clear and compelling prose, the reader has a fighting chance of arriving at the story of today’s genetic manipulations with an actual understanding of both the immensely complicated science and the even more complicated moral questions.”New York Times Science Section

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