HEALING DISEASES WITHOUT DRUGS OR SURGERY - A LOOK AT DEAN ORNISH'S BOOKS

Dean Ornish, M. D., is the founder and president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He received his medical training at Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical College and Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published his work in eminent scientific and medical journals such as Journal of the American Medical Association, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet, etc.

A HISTORY OF MODERN BIOLOGY - REVIEW OF SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE'S "THE GENE"

Siddhartha Mukherjee, the author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Emperor of All Maladies (2011) (see my review here) is back with his latest book The Gene: An Intimate History (2016). Indian-born Mukherjee graduated from Ivy League institutions in the US and the UK and is now assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University.

THE DEADLIEST OF ALL – REVIEW OF SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE’S “THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES”

Some people are of the opinion that cancer is a recent disease, just over a hundred years old, brought about by changes in lifestyle. However, oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee in his Pulitzer-winning The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2011) shows that there are records of cancer over the last five thousand years. Carefully preserved mummies have been studied and diagnosed to be bearing symptoms of cancer.