| Description |
xxi, 377 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Policy, politics, health, and medicine series |
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Policy, politics, health, and medicine series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-350) and index. |
| Contents |
Losing the war against cancer: who's to blame and what to do about it -- Debate on policies of the national cancer institute, American Cancer Society, and American College of Radiology -- Dangers and unreliability of mammography: breast examination is a safe, effective, and practical alternative -- Evaluation of the national cancer program and proposed reforms -- American Cancer Society: the world's wealthiest "nonprofit" institution -- Legislative proposals for reversing the cancer epidemic and controlling run-away industrial technologies -- The crisis in U.S. and international cancer policy -- Strategies for the stop cancer campaign -- REACH: an unprecedented science-based European initiative for regulating industrial chemicals -- Debate on safety of recombinant bovine growth hormone -- Questions and answers on synthetic bovine growth hormones -- Unlabeled milk from cows treated with biosynthetic growth hormones: a case of regulatory abdication -- The chemical jungle: today's beef industry -- Preventing pathogenic food poisoning: sanitation, not irradiation -- Pro-industry bias in science -- Corporate crime: why we cannot trust industry-derived safety studies -- Industrial risks of colorectal cancer -- Industrial risks of breast cancer. |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Government policy -- United States.
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National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
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American Cancer Society.
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Cancer -- Prevention.
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National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
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American Cancer Society.
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Neoplasms -- prevention & control -- United States.
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Carcinogens, Environmental -- adverse effects -- United States.
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Food Contamination -- United States.
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Health Policy -- United States.
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Industry -- United States.
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Neoplasms -- etiology -- United States.
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Politics -- United States.
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United States Government Agencies -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0895033100 cloth |
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9780895033109 cloth |
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0895033542 paperback |
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9780895033543 paperback |
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