The Secret History of the War on Cancer

Davis, Devra

ISBN 10: 0465015662 / ISBN 13: 9780465015665

Published by Basic Books, 2007

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Light wear to edges of jacket. Light rubbing/bumping to edges of boards. Interior clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret History of the War on Cancer
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465015662
• ISBN 13: 9780465015665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 862 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medicine
  • Journalism
  • Science & Technology
  • Women Authors/Artists

About this title

Synopsis

The War on Cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease. Left untouched were many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, or the global environment. Proof of how the world in which we live and work affects whether we get cancer was either overlooked or suppressed. This has been no accident. The War on Cancer was run by leaders of industries that made cancer-causing products, and sometimes also profited from drugs and technologies for finding and treating the disease. Filled with compelling personalities and never-before-revealed information, The Secret History of the War on Cancer shows how we began fighting the wrong war, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies-a legacy that persists to this day. This is the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain. A portion of the profits from this book will go to support research on cancer prevention.

About the Author

Devra Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Professor of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health. She was appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board in 1994 and also served as Scholar in Residence at the National Academy of Science. She works in Pittsburgh, and lives in Washington, D.C. She is married to Richard D. Morgenstern and has two children and two grandchildren.