Secret History of the War on Cancer

Name: Secret History of the War on Cancer
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ISBN: 9780465015689

ISBN-10: 0465015689

ISBN-13: 9780465015689

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Authors: Devra Lee Davis

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Why has the "War on Cancer" languished, focusing mainly on finding and treating the disease and downplaying the need to control and combat cancer's basic causestobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the general environment? This war has targeted the wrong enemies with the wrong weapons, failing to address well-known cancer causes.As epidemiologist Devra Davis shows in this superbly researched expose, this is no accident. The War on Cancer has followed the commercial interests of industries that generated a host of cancer-causing materials and products. This is the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain that is being reclaimed through efforts…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 2/24/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface



The Secret History



Natural and Other Experiments



A Broad Enough Principle



Phantom Collaborators



Fear Sells



Making Goods out of Bads



Saving Cigarettes



The Good War



Cancer Doctoring



Deconstructing Cancer Statistics



Doctoring Evidence



The Harshest of Schoolmasters



No Safe Place



Chasing Tales



Presumed Innocent


Epilogue Mother's Last


Afterword Bad Dreams


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index