Malignant How Cancer Becomes Us

Name: Malignant How Cancer Becomes Us
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ISBN: 9780520276574

ISBN-10: 0520276574

ISBN-13: 9780520276574

Edition: 2013

Authors: S. Lochlann Jain

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Cancer can kill: this fact makes it concrete. Still, it's a devious knave. Nearly every American will experience it up-close and all too personally, wondering why the billions of research dollars thrown at the word haven't exterminated it from the English language.Like a sapper diffusing a bomb, Jain unscrambles the emotional, bureaucratic, medical, and scientific tropes that create the thing we call cancer.Scientists debate even the most basic facts about the disease, while endlessly generated, disputed, population data produce the appearance of knowledge.Jain takes the vacuum at the center of cancer seriously and demonstrates the need to understand cancer as a set of…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction: We Just Don't Know It Yet



Living in Prognosis: The Firing Squad of Statistics



Poker Face: Gaming a Lifespan



Cancer Butch: Trip Up the Fast Lane



Lost Chance: Medical Mistakes



The Mortality Effect: The Future in Cancer Trials



Inconceivable: Where IVF Goes Bad



Can Sir: What Screening Doesn't Do



Fallout: Minuets in the Key of Fear



Rubble: Bakelite Bodies


Conclusion: Shameless


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index