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The secret history of the war on cancer / Devra Davis.
- Title
- The secret history of the war on cancer / Devra Davis.
- Author
- Davis, Devra Lee
- Publication
- New York : BasicBooks ; London : Perseus [distributor], c2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RC268.25 .D383 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 505 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Relates the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain.
- Subjects
- History
- Geschichte 1920-2005
- Primary Prevention > history
- Primary Prevention > economics
- History, 20th Century
- Health Policy > history
- Health Policy > economics
- Carcinogens, Environmental > history
- Neoplasms > history
- Cancer > Environmental aspects
- Cancer > Economic aspects
- Cancer > Treatment > Economic aspects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-477) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Secret History -- 2. Natural and Other Experiments -- 3. Broad Enough Principle -- 4. Phantom Collaborators -- 5. Fear Sells -- 6. Making Goods out of Bads -- 7. Saving Cigarettes -- 8. Good War -- 9. Cancer Doctoring -- 10. Deconstructing Cancer Statistics -- 11. Doctoring Evidence -- 12. Harshest of Schoolmasters -- 13. No Safe Place -- 14. Chasing Tales -- 15. Presumed Innocent -- Epilogue: Mother's Last.
- ISBN
- 9780465015665 (hbk.)
- 0465015662 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 148914532
- SCSB-10331130
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library