Under the Radar : Cancer and the Cold War.
Title:
Under the Radar : Cancer and the Cold War.
Author:
Leopold, Ellen.
ISBN:
9780813545653
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Series:
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Contents:
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 -- About the Author.
Abstract:
In Under the Radar, Ellen Leopold shows how nearly every aspect of our understanding and discussion of cancer bears the imprint of its Cold War entanglement. The current biases toward individual rather than corporate responsibility for rising incidence rates, research that promotes treatment rather than prevention, and therapies that can be patented and marketed all reflect a largely hidden history shaped by the Cold War. Even the language we use to describe the disease, such as the guiding metaphor for treatment, "fight fire with fire," can be traced back to the middle of the twentieth century.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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