David Cantor

David Cantor is the editor of Cancer in the 20th Century and, with Christian Bonah and Matthias Dörries, Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the 20th Century.

Our Shapeshifting Companion: Cancer

David Cantor, 7 March 2013

Siddhartha Mukherjee is an oncologist, physician and laboratory scientist whose book captures the excitement of biomedical research and discovery, the wonder at the complexities of cancer and the bodies it inhabits, and the thrill of major advances in knowledge and practice. Mukherjee seldom dismisses older methods of treatment or those who promoted them, but his book is mostly about what...

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