Includes a new afterword (p. [455]-478). Hardcover edition published in 2007. Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-502) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
From the Publisher: 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 causes-tobacco, 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 to green health care and the environment.
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