Ravenous

Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection

Ravenous
Sam Apple
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Hardback
h236 x 157mm - 416pg
25 Jun 2021 US
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9781631493157
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The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg was widely regarded as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century. A Jewish homosexual living openly with his partner, he was also among the most despised figures in the Third Reich. Yet top Nazi officials-perhaps even Hitler himself-dreaded cancer and protected Warburg in the hope he could cure it. Using new archival sources and interviews with current cancer authorities, Sam Apple depicts a relentless figure, hungry for fame, who pursued his research even as the world around him disintegrated. Remarkably, Warburg' s theory about the metabolic origins of cancer has been revived in our own time, as scientists investigate the dangers of sugar and the link between obesity and cancer. Ravenous is a book for readers of Alan Turing and The Emperor of All Maladies: a tale of scientific discovery, personal peril and the race to end a disastrous disease.
Apple . . . delivers a gripping account of biochemist Otto Warburg (1883-1970) and the origins of modern cancer science in his excellent latest. . . As he draws fascinating insights from the interplay between science and ideology. . . Apple keeps the scientific explanations easy to understand, while interviews with a slew of characters add color. This is a bona fide page-turner. --Publishers Weekly, starred review [Apple] skillfully blends science writing with biography to present the story of this quirky, arrogant, and brilliant scientist, who revolutionized research on cancer and photosynthesis (how organisms use energy to make glucose). . . . An illuminating account that makes Warburg (the man and the scientist) accessible to general readers. --Karl Helicher, Library Journal A long-overdue biography of German biologist Otto Warburg (1883-1970), who won the Nobel Prize for his work on cell respiration and metabolism, especially as related to cancer. . . . A welcome addition to the library on the disease and one of its most successful enemies. -- "Kirkus Reviews"
Sam Apple has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Atlantic, and NewYorker. com. He is on the faculty of the MA in Science Writing and MA in Writing programs at Johns Hopkins, and lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781631493157
Published: 25 Jun 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 236mm
Width: 157mm
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 630g
Pages: 416

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