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The secret history of the war on cancer / Devra Davis.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Davis, Devra Lee.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cancer--Environmental aspects.
Cancer.
Cancer--Treatment--Economic aspects.
Cancer--Economic aspects.
Cancer--Preventinon--Economic aspects.
Cancer--Prevention--Government policy.
Cancer--Political aspects.
Cancer--History.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (525 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : BasicBooks, c2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
<div>From the National Book Award finalist, author of <I>When Smoke Ran Like Water</I>, a searing, haunting and deeply personal account of the War on Cancer</div>
Contents:
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
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-282-44951-6
9786612449512
0-465-01031-8
0-7867-4420-0
OCLC:
782879171

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