The secret history of the war on cancer

From the National Book Award finalist, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a searing, haunting and deeply personal account of the War on Cancer.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Devra Lee
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: New York BasicBooks 2007
Basic Books
Edition:1
Subjects:
Cancer
Cancer > Economic aspects
Cancer > Environmental aspects
Cancer > Government policy > United States. sears
Cancer > Law and legislation > United States. sears
Cancer > Prevention > History. sears
Cancer > Research > History. sears
Cancer > Treatment > Economic aspects
Carcinogens, Environmental > history
Economic aspects
Environmental aspects
Government policy
Health Policy > economics
Health Policy > history
History
History, 20th Century
Neoplasms > history
Political aspects
Preventinon
Prevention
Primary Prevention > economics
Primary Prevention > history
Treatment
ISBN:0465015662, 9780465015665, 9780465015689, 0465015689
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Preface ix -- 1 The Secret History 3 -- 2 Natural and Other Experiments 17 -- 3 A Broad Enough Principle 45 -- 4 Phantom Collaborators 73 -- 5 Fear Sells 107 -- 6 Making Goods out of Bads 141 -- 7 Saving Cigarettes 169 -- 8 The Good War 199 -- 9 Cancer Doctoring 223 -- 10 Deconstructing Cancer Statistics 245 -- 11 Doctoring Evidence 267 -- 12 The Harshest of Schoolmasters 297 -- 13 No Safe Place 329 -- 14 Chasing Tales 363 -- 15 Presumed Innocent 391 -- Epilogue Mother's Last 437 -- Notes 455 -- Acknowledgments 479 -- Index 489