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Under the radar : cancer and the Cold War
- Title
- Under the radar : cancer and the Cold War / Ellen Leopold.
- Author
- Leopold, Ellen, 1944-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009], ©2009.
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- Description
- xi, 284 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In Under the Radar, Ellen Leopold shows how nearly every aspect of our understanding and discussion of cancer bears the imprint of its Cold War entanglement, including perhaps the most visible sign of this influence, the prominence of radiation therapies in today's treatment arsenal. 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. Even the language we have borrowed from this disease to describe social upheavals - the "cancer of communism," "metastasizing insurgencies" - can be traced back to the middle of the twentieth century when atomic energy first appeared on the international stage."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Critical issues in health and medicine
- Uniform Title
- Critical issues in health and medicine.
- Subjects
- Radioactive fallout > United States
- Cobalt Radioisotopes > history
- Cobalt > Isotopes > Therapeutic use > United States > History > 20th century
- Informed consent (Medical law) > United States
- Radiation carcinogenesis > United States
- Cold War > Health aspects > United States
- Neoplasms > history
- Radioactive Fallout > history
- Cancer > United States > History > 20th century
- Human Experimentation > history
- United States
- Radiotherapy > history
- History, 20th Century
- Patient Rights > history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-274) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Double Jeopardy: Cancer and "Cure" -- Ch. 2. The Court Considers Informed Consent -- Ch. 3. The Rise of Radioactive Cobalt -- Ch. 4. The Cobalt Back Story: "A Little of the Buchenwald Touch" -- Ch. 5. Behind the Fallout Controversy: The Public, the Press, and Conflicts of Interest -- Ch. 6. Cancer and Fallout: Science by Circumvention -- Ch. 7. Paradise Lost: Radiation Enters the Mainstream -- Ch. 8. Subdued by the System: Cancer in the Courts, Compensation, and the Changing Concept of Risk -- Ch. 9. Hidden Assassin: The Individual at Fault -- Ch. 10. Experiments by Other Means: Clinical Trials and the Primacy of Treatment over Prevention.
- ISBN
- 9780813544045 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813544041 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008007751
- 40015895998
- OCLC
- ocn212375892
- 212375892
- SCSB-5434310
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries