The Secret History of the War on Cancer - Softcover

Davis, Devra

 
9780465015689: The Secret History of the War on Cancer
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0465015689 ISBN 13: 9780465015689
Verlag: Basic Books, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, directs Pittsburgh's Center for Environmental Oncology and is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. Contributor to the Nobel Peace Prize of 2007, she was founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies at the National Academy of Science and presidential appointee to the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. She is the acclaimed author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, Finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Washington, D.C., and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

www.DevraDavis.com

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465015689
ISBN 13 
9780465015689
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
552
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