Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer
Prize-winning author and one of the world's premiere cancer researchers reveals
an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how
understanding these principles can empower us all.
Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and
isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the
way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced
Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a
"science"? Sciences must have laws—statements of truth based on repeated
experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine
have