Malignant : how cancer becomes us

Malignant : how cancer becomes us /

"Cancer can kill: this fact makes it concrete. Still, it's a devious knave. Nearly every American will experience it up-close and all too personally, wondering why the billions of research dollars thrown at the word haven't exterminated it from the English language. Like a sapper diff...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jain, Sarah S. Lochlann, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Jain, Sarah S. Lochlann, > 1967-
Cancer > Government policy > United States.
Cancer > Research > United States.
Cancer > Risk factors > Government policy > United States.
Carcinogens > Government policy > United States.
Neoplasms > psychology.
Carcinogens.
Health Policy.
Medical Oncology > legislation & jurisprudence.
Neoplasms > economics.
Research Support as Topic.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Cancer > Government policy.
Cancer > Research.
Cancer > Risk factors > Government policy.
Carcinogens > Government policy.
Ethnomedizin
Krebs > Medizin
Krebsforschung
Therapie
Regierung
Politik
Cancer.
United States.
USA.
Personal Narrative.
Personal narratives.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: We just don't know it yet
  • Living in prognosis : the firing squad of statistics
  • Poker face : gaming a lifespan
  • Cancer butch : trip up the fast lane
  • Lost chance : medical mistakes
  • The mortality effect : the future in cancer trials
  • Inconceivable : where IVF goes bad
  • Can sir : what screening doesn't do
  • Fallout : minuets in the key of fear
  • Rubble : Bakelite bodies
  • Conclusion: Shameless.

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