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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Devra Lee Davis |
ISBN: | 9780465015665 0465015662 |
OCLC Number: | 148914532 |
Description: | xviii, 505 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Devra Davis. |
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Abstract:
Even before its official launch, the War on Cancer was fighting many of the wrong battles, with the wrong weapons and the wrong leaders. This work shows how the leadership acted to prevent research on prevention from ever being done - or, once done, from ever gaining widespread circulation or affecting either medical practice or government policy.
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