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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ellen Leopold is the author of A Darker Ribbon: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Century, and coauthor of The World of Consumption. She has written on the subject of the politics of health care for The Nation, American Prospect, Women's Review of Books and the Chicago Tribune.
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Double jeopardy: cancer and the "cure" The court considers informed consent The rise of radioactive cobalt The back story: "a little of the Buchenwald touch" Behind the fallout controversy: the public, the press, and conflicts of interest Cancer and fallout: science by circumvention Paradise lost: radiation enters the mainstream Subdued by the system: cancer in the courts, compensation, and the changing concept of risk The hidden assassin: the individual at fault Experiments by other means: clinical trials and the primacy of treatment over prevention
Double jeopardy: cancer and the "cure" The court considers informed consent The rise of radioactive cobalt The back story: "a little of the Buchenwald touch" Behind the fallout controversy: the public, the press, and conflicts of interest Cancer and fallout: science by circumvention Paradise lost: radiation enters the mainstream Subdued by the system: cancer in the courts, compensation, and the changing concept of risk The hidden assassin: the individual at fault Experiments by other means: clinical trials and the primacy of treatment over prevention
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