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The Emperor of Illnesses is just a wonderful, greatly gentle “biography” of cancer—from its first recorded looks a large number of years back through the legendary struggles in the twentieth-century to handle, remedy, and overcome it to some revolutionary new knowledge of its substance. Doctor, investigator, and award winning technology author, Siddhartha Mukherjee investigates melanoma having a mobile biologist’s accuracy, a historian’s viewpoint, and a biographer’s enthusiasm. The end result is definitely an amazingly elegant and articulate share of the illness people have existed with—and perished from—for significantly more than five-thousand years. The story of melanoma is just a story of human ingenuity, strength, and determination, but additionally of hubris, misperception, and paternalism.