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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.