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