Author: PBS NewsHour
Narrator: PBS NewsHour
Unabridged: 0 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 01/25/2011
In his new book The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee delves into the history and future of the disease.
Rather than being a rare exception in our otherwise healthy lives, “quite possibly, cancer is our normalcy,” Mukherjee writes. “We are inherently destined to slouch towards a malignant end,” because the gene mutations that lead to cancer are an inevitable part of our genetic heritage.
Overcoming that genetic heritage, Mukherjee says, would be “a technological victory unlike any other we’ve ever accomplished as a species.”
Tuesday on the NewsHour, health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser talks to Mukherjee about his book and the patients whose questions inspired him to write it.
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Jeffrey Brown talks to master lyricist Stephen Sondheim about his new book, Finishing the Hat.
More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with jazz musician Wynton Marsalis.
A 1977 interview with the Shah of Iran in which he discusses relations with the United States. Originally broadcast on The MacNeil/Lehrer Report.
With each passing day the potential reach of a single false news story—and its ability to negatively impact all of us—grows in both size and scope. Although politicians, activists, and ordinary citizens regularly complain about deceptive...
Jeffrey Brown continues the conversation with Philip Glass online with a few more questions.
Jeffrey Brown speaks with musician Elvis Costello about how his approach to recording albums has evolved over three decades.
One of the most prolific and influential investigative journalists of her generation, Marie Brenner has brought countless fascinating people—politicians, activists, journalists, and private citizens—to life through her writing. Now, for ...