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Author Davis, Devra Lee.

Title The secret history of the war on cancer / Devra Davis.

Publication Info. New York : BasicBooks, [2007]
©2007

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  616.994 DAVIS    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  616.994 DAV    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  616.994 DAV    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  616.994 DAV    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.994 DAVIS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.99405 D29    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  616.994 DAVIS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  616.994 DA    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 505 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Relates the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain.
Contents 1. Secret History -- 2. Natural and Other Experiments -- 3. Broad Enough Principle -- 4. Phantom Collaborators -- 5. Fear Sells -- 6. Making Goods out of Bads -- 7. Saving Cigarettes -- 8. Good War -- 9. Cancer Doctoring -- 10. Deconstructing Cancer Statistics -- 11. Doctoring Evidence -- 12. Harshest of Schoolmasters -- 13. No Safe Place -- 14. Chasing Tales -- 15. Presumed Innocent -- Epilogue: Mother's Last.
Subject Cancer -- Environmental aspects.
Cancer -- Treatment -- Economic aspects.
Cancer -- Economic aspects.
Neoplasms -- history.
Carcinogens, Environmental -- history.
Health Policy -- economics.
Health Policy -- history.
History, 20th Century.
Primary Prevention -- economics.
Primary Prevention -- history.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1920-2005
ISBN 9780465015665
0465015662
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