I Am A Scientist And I Am

Down To Their Innate Molecular Core, Cancer Cells Are Hyperactive, Survival-endowed, Scrappy, Fecund, Inventive Copies Of Ourselves.

Could Your Medicine Be A Cell, Not A Pill? Could Your Medicine Be An Organ That's Created Outside The Body? Could Your Medicine Be An Environment?

Cancer's Life Is A Recapitulation Of The Body's Life, Its Existence A Pathological Mirror Of Our Own. Susan Sontag Warned Against Overburdening An Illness With Metaphors. But This Is Not A Metaphor. Down To Their Innate Molecular Core, Cancer Cells Are Hyperactive, Survival-endowed, Scrappy, Fecund, Inventive Copies Of Ourselves.

This Was Yet Another Colonial Fascination: To Create The Conditions Of Misery In A Population, Then Subject It To Social Or Medical Experimentation.

Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored Is A Passionate And Necessary Book That Asks Difficult Questions About The Future Of Medicine. The Narrative Is Gripping, And The Writing Is Marvelous. But It Was The Gravity Of The Problem—so Movingly Told—that Grabbed And Kept My Attention Throughout This Remarkable Work.