Under the Radar : : Cancer and the Cold War /

Under the Radar : : Cancer and the Cold War / / Ellen Leopold.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Leopold, Ellen,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 6
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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 Fault
  • Chapter 10. Experiments by Other Means: Clinical Trials and the Primacy of Treatment over Prevention
  • Notes
  • Index

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