Polymath Books

In November 2010, NPR’s Fresh Air featured a story, “An Oncologist Writes a Biography of Cancer.” Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee was treat...

The study of the evolution of emotions dates back to the 19th century. Charles Darwin famously applied the theory of evolution and natural s...

In 2009, the author wrote this in the New Yorker: McAllen has another distinction, too: it is one of the most expensive health-care markets ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the worldwide medical community was searching for the secret to controlling a disease that, at the tim...

Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee was treating one of his patients, a woman with advanced abdominal cancer who had relapsed multiple times, wh...