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Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
Under the Radar Cancer and the Cold War - Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Author: Ellen Leopold
At the end of the Second World War, a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence. Sixty years later, it is considered a chronic disease rather than one that is invariably fatal. Although survival rates have improved, the very word continues to evoke a special terror and guilt, inspiring scientists and politicians to wage war against it. — In Under ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813544045
ISBN-10: 0813544041
Publication Date: 11/30/2008
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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