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Index
Cover
Dedication
Author’s Note
Prologue
Part One: “Of blacke cholor, without boyling”
Chapter 1: “A suppuration of blood”
Chapter 2: “A monster more insatiable than the guillotine”
Chapter 3: Farber’s Gauntlet
Chapter 4: A Private Plague
Chapter 5: Onkos
Chapter 6: Vanishing Humors
Chapter 7: “Remote Sympathy”
Chapter 8: A Radical Idea
Chapter 9: The Hard Tube and the Weak Light
Chapter 10: Dyeing and Dying
Chapter 11: Poisoning the Atmosphere
Chapter 12: The Goodness of Show Business
Chapter 13: The House That Jimmy Built
Part Two: An Impatient War
Chapter 14: “They form a society”
Chapter 15: “These new friends of chemotherapy”
Chapter 16: “The butcher shop”
Chapter 17: An Early Victory
Chapter 18: Mice and Men
Chapter 19: VAMP
Chapter 20: An Anatomist’s Tumor
Chapter 21: An Army on the March
Chapter 22: The Cart and the Horse
Chapter 23: “A moon shot for cancer”
Part Three: “Will you turn me out if I can’t get better?”
Chapter 24: “In God we trust. All others [must] have data”
Chapter 25: “The smiling oncologist”
Chapter 26: Knowing the Enemy
Chapter 27: Halsted’s Ashes
Chapter 28: Counting Cancer
Part Four: Prevention Is the Cure
Chapter 29: “Coffins of black”
Chapter 30: The Emperor’s Nylon Stockings
Chapter 31: “A thief in the night”
Chapter 32: “A statement of warning”
Chapter 33: “Curiouser and curiouser”
Chapter 34: “A spider’s web”
Chapter 35: STAMP
Chapter 36: The Map and the Parachute
Part Five: “A Distorted Version of Our Normal Selves”
Chapter 37: “A unitary cause”
Chapter 38: Under the Lamps of Viruses
Chapter 39: “The hunting of the sarc”
Chapter 40: The Wind in the Trees
Chapter 41: A Risky Prediction
Chapter 42: The Hallmarks of Cancer
Part Six: The Fruits of Long Endeavors
Chapter 43: “No one had labored in vain”
Chapter 44: New Drugs for Old Cancers
Chapter 45: A City of Strings
Chapter 46: Drugs, Bodies, and Proof
Chapter 47: A Four-Minute Mile
Chapter 48: The Red Queen’s Race
Chapter 49: Thirteen Mountains
Atossa’s War
Photographs
Acknowledgments
An Interview with Siddhartha Mukherjee
‘The Song of the Cell’ Teaser
About Siddhartha Mukherjee
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Photograph Credits
Index
Copyright
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