《众病之王》简介：

《众病之王：癌症传》是一部饱含人文主义色彩的社科文化著作。作者悉达多•穆克吉历时六年，凭借翔实的历史资料、专业文献、媒体报道、患者专访等众多信息，向读者阐述了癌症的起源与发展，人类对抗癌症、预防癌症的斗争史。作者借由医学、文化、社会、政治等视角透露出一种社会化关怀；生动、文学性的写作手法展现出鲜活的人物和历史事件，让读者为之动容。

《众病之王》摘录：

“And there is a subtler reason to remember this story: while the content of medicine is constantly changing, its form, I suspect, remains astonishingly the same. History repeats, but science reverberates. The tools that we will use to battle cancer in the future will doubtless alter so dramatically in fifty years that the geography of cancer prevention and therapy might be unrecognizable. Future physicians may laugh at our mixing of primitive cocktails of poisons to kill the most elemental and magisterial disease known to our species. But much about this battle will remain the same: the relentlessness, the inventiveness, the resilience, the queasy pivoting between defeatism and hope, the hypnotic drive for universal solutions, the disappointment of defeat, the arrogance and the hubris.” E...

《众病之王》目录：

［众病之王癌症传］
［作者记］/ 1
［引子］/ 001
［第一部分］“黑色体液，淤积不化”/ 011
［第二部分］缺乏耐心的战争/ 121
［第三部分］“如果我不能好转，你会拒绝收治我吗？”/ 215
［第四部分］预防就是治疗/ 263
［第五部分］正常自我的扭曲态/ 361
［第六部分］长期努力的硕果/ 423
［致谢］/ 505
［悉达多•穆克吉访谈录］/ 508
［词汇表］/ 522
［译者附记］/ 526
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