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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Critical Studies in Health and Medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813545653 081354565X 9780813544045 0813544041 |