The Secret History of the War on Cancer

Devra Davis

ISBN 10: 0465015689 / ISBN 13: 9780465015689

Published by Hachette Book Group Apr 2009, 2009

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Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret History of the War on Cancer
• Publisher: Hachette Book Group Apr 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465015689
• ISBN 13: 9780465015689
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 165H x 37D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 165 millimeters height by 37 millimeters depth
• Weight: 680 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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