Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee appears in the following:

Siddhartha Mukherjee on Medicine at the Cellular Level

Friday, October 28, 2022

Siddhartha Mukherjee talks about his new book that explores the new world of cellular medicine.

Hello, My Name Is

Friday, April 29, 2022

This week, we're talking names. They're some of the first labels we get, and they can both reveal and conceal. Do they shape us? Or the other way around?
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How Viruses Like COVID-19 May Work

Monday, April 06, 2020

Tune in for an analysis of the behavioral patterns of COVID-19 and how to stay healthy when a roommate has coronavirus. 

Siddhartha Mukherjee Breaks Down the Elusive History of Genetics

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and physician Siddhartha Mukherjee traces the history of genetics and heredity in his new book "The Gene: An Intimate History."

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A Brief Biography of Cancer

Friday, October 02, 2015

Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, charts cancer’s 2,500 year history.

A Brief Biography of Cancer

Friday, March 27, 2015

Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, charts cancer’s 2,500 year history.

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Pulitzer Prize Winners

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Among the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners are writers Jennifer Eagan, Eric Foner, Ron Chernow, and Siddhartha Mukherjee, who were all guests on the Leonard Lopate Show last year. You can listen to their conversations with Leonard below.

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Cancer: A Biography

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Although cancer was first documented thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, it is a disease that has long lingered at the margins of medicine--noticed only when other diseases, like tuberculosis and smallpox, had been largely eradicated. Oncologist Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee attempts to shine a light on this often misunderstoond and terrifying disease in his book: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. He recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, and traces the history of the disease in patients from Persian Queen Atossa to his own leukemia patients in Boston.

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A Biography of Cancer

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Although cancer was first documented thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, it is a disease that has long lingered at the margins of medicine--noticed only when other diseases, like tuberculosis and smallpox, had been largely eradicated. Oncologist Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee attempts to shine a light on this often misunderstoond and terrifying disease in his book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. He recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths and traces the history of the disease in patients from Persian Queen Atossa to his own leukemia patients in Boston.

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