Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjeeis an Indian-born American physician, scientist, and writer best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was the basis of a 2015 film documentary, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, by Ken Burns for PBS Television. It was named one of the 100 most influential books written in English since 1923 by the magazine Time and one of the 100...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionScientist
CountryIndia
Siddhartha Mukherjee quotes about
link seems
We don't know why, but pancreatic cancer has a very interesting physiological link to depression. There seems to be a deep link, and we don't know what it is.
ageing major overall rising trend
There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't dying of other things, so we're dying of cancer.
repeating-history repeats
History repeats, but science reverberates.
fascination population medical
This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.
cities want littles
I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.