The Emperor of All Maladies

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

For any illness to rise to political prominence, it needed to be marketed, just as a political campaign needed marketing. A disease needed to be transformed politically before it could be transformed scientifically.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin256: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. —Franz Kafka

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. —Voltaire

And it is solely by risking life513 that freedom is obtained. —Hegel