Under the Radar : Cancer and the Cold War.
At the end of the Second World War, a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence. Sixty years later, it is considered a chronic disease rather than one that is invariably fatal. Although survival rates have improved, the very word continues to evoke a special terror and guilt, inspiring scientists and...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Double Jeopardy: Cancer and "Cure"; Chapter 2: The Court Considers Informed Consent; Chapter 3: The Rise of Radioactive Cobalt; Chapter 4: The Cobalt Back Story "A Little of the Buchenwald Touch"; Chapter 5: Behind the Fallout Controversy: The Public, the Press, and Conflicts of Interest; Chapter 6: Cancer and Fallout Science by Circumvention; Chapter 7: Paradise Lost: Radiation Enters the Mainstream; Chapter 8: Subdued by the System: Cancer in the Courts, Compensation, and the Changing Concept of Risk. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 9: Hidden Assassin: The Individual at FaultChapter 10: Experiments by Other Means: Clinical Trials and the Primacy of Treatment over Prevention; Notes; Index; About the Author. | |
| 520 | |a At the end of the Second World War, a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence. Sixty years later, it is considered a chronic disease rather than one that is invariably fatal. Although survival rates have improved, the very word continues to evoke a special terror and guilt, inspiring scientists and politicians to wage war against it. In Under the Radar, Ellen Leopold shows how nearly every aspect of our understanding and discussion of cancer bears the imprint of its Cold War entanglement. The current biases toward individual rather than corporate responsibility for rising incidence rates, res. | ||
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