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The book chronicles Boyer's experience as a breast cancer patient. Boyer takes an untraditional approach to the standard illness narrative , by weaving together her personal journey as a patient in treatment with reflections on art and literature, and critiques of capitalism and the medical industry.
According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on thirteen critic reviews with five being "rave" and six being "positive" and two being "mixed". [5] On Bookmarks January/February 2011 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.00 out of 5) from based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "Many of Mukherjee's followers will ...
That's the way it is. The book sounds like the way we talk." [3] Our Cancer Year won the 1995 Harvey Award for best original graphic novel. [4] The creation of Our Cancer Year and many elements of its story were incorporated into the 2003 film American Splendor, based on the life and career of Pekar and his relationship with Brabner. [5]
The WHO Classification of Tumours, more commonly known as the WHO Blue Books, is a series of books that classify tumours. They are compiled by expert consensus and published by the World Health Organization 's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970) [1] is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, [2] and Guardian First Book Award, [3] among others.
Prasad is currently a full professor of hematology-oncology at UCSF. [4] He is a cancer drug and health policy researcher. He also studies the financial conflicts in drug approvals. [5] In 2015, Prasad published the book, Ending Medical Reversal, with physician and academic Adam Cifu. [6]
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Five Patients is a non-fiction book by Michael Crichton that recounts his experiences of hospital practices during the late 1960s at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and describes the changes he anticipates in healthcare in coming years. It is his first non-fiction book.