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Author : L. Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Story Behind the "cancer Epidemic" written by L. Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Livingston
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822353423
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Improvising Medicine written by Julie Livingston and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.
Author : Tai Lahans
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814449733
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Geology Of The Modern Cancer Epidemic, The: Through The Lens Of Chinese Medicine written by Tai Lahans and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancers are on the rise across the world. Except for viral-based cancers, overall cancers are diseases that may be preventable. This book looks at the many levels of determined, probable, and possible causation for several common cancers. These causes include realities found in culture, anthropology, sociology, politics, the environment, agriculture and food, beliefs, and the modern lifestyle. These realities are filtered through the perennial science of Chinese medicine — an ecological system of knowing and understanding the human body as it relates to the world around us.The book covers lung, colorectal, breast, prostate, and virally-caused cancers. It interweaves conventional medical knowledge of these cancers with modern realities of everyday life we all live, and with Chinese medicine interpretations and strategies for treating probable pre-cancerous conditions. This makes it a book that is useful for the practitioner of Chinese medicine. It is also useful for the patient suffering a cancer diagnosis in terms of survivorship and for other medical practitioners who wish to understand how integrated care for cancerous diseases and conditions may relate to Chinese medicine and prevention.The final chapters of the book are dedicated to finding answers for a cure for cancer through making connections between how we live, what we believe, the environment we are creating based on those beliefs, and the social and political mechanisms we now have in place that keep us from change and, therefore, from the cure for cancer.
Author : George Johnson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385349718
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The Cancer Chronicles written by George Johnson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way—an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where it comes from. In a provocative and intellectually vibrant exploration, he takes us on an adventure through the history and recent advances of cancer research that will challenge everything you thought you knew about the disease. Deftly excavating and illuminating decades of investigation and analysis, he reveals what we know and don’t know about cancer, showing why a cure remains such a slippery concept. We follow him as he combs through the realms of epidemiology, clinical trials, laboratory experiments, and scientific hypotheses—rooted in every discipline from evolutionary biology to game theory and physics. Cogently extracting fact from a towering canon of myth and hype, he describes tumors that evolve like alien creatures inside the body, paleo-oncologists who uncover petrified tumors clinging to the skeletons of dinosaurs and ancient human ancestors, and the surprising reversals in science’s comprehension of the causes of cancer, with the foods we eat and environmental toxins playing a lesser role. Perhaps most fascinating of all is how cancer borrows natural processes involved in the healing of a wound or the unfolding of a human embryo and turns them, jujitsu-like, against the body. Throughout his pursuit, Johnson clarifies the human experience of cancer with elegiac grace, bearing witness to the punishing gauntlet of consultations, surgeries, targeted therapies, and other treatments. He finds compassion, solace, and community among a vast network of patients and professionals committed to the fight and wrestles to comprehend the cruel randomness cancer metes out in his own family. For anyone whose life has been affected by cancer and has found themselves asking why?, this book provides a new understanding. In good company with the works of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Abraham Verghese, The Cancer Chronicles is endlessly surprising and as radiant in its prose as it is authoritative in its eye-opening science.
Author : Gotthard Booth
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Cancer Epidemic written by Gotthard Booth and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supported by the New York Psychosomatic Cancer Study Group and the Gotthard Booth Society for Holistic Health. The wide publicity given to statistical surveys of cigarette and other tobacco habits in terms of an aetiological factor in lung cancer has relegated to the background many other possible components, particularly in the sphere of personality and emotional constellations. This work presents Gotthard Booth's studies of persons who developed cancer, with observations and an experimental approach, the results of which are given in categories of Rorschach responses in order to gain information about the subjects' personalities in terms of intellectual function, emotional control, present content, mental conflicts, creative imagination, and fundamental instinctive drives. From these studies and from the known aspects of the cancer situation the author suggests that cancer is an expression of the personality type and that the cancer patient is dominated by anal components. Rich in new ideas with a wealth of informative material to be considered in practical applications, not only in the field of psychopathology but also in general medicine.
Author : Robin Wolfe Scheffler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022662837X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book A Contagious Cause written by Robin Wolfe Scheffler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer “germ,” inspired fear and ignited controversy. Yet speculation that cancer might be contagious also contained a kernel of hope that the strategies used against infectious diseases, especially vaccination, might be able to subdue this dread disease. Today, nearly one in six cancers are thought to have an infectious cause, but the path to that understanding was twisting and turbulent. A Contagious Cause is the first book to trace the century-long hunt for a human cancer virus in America, an effort whose scale exceeded that of the Human Genome Project. The government’s campaign merged the worlds of molecular biology, public health, and military planning in the name of translating laboratory discoveries into useful medical therapies. However, its expansion into biomedical research sparked fierce conflict. Many biologists dismissed the suggestion that research should be planned and the idea of curing cancer by a vaccine or any other means as unrealistic, if not dangerous. Although the American hunt was ultimately fruitless, this effort nonetheless profoundly shaped our understanding of life at its most fundamental levels. A Contagious Cause links laboratory and legislature as has rarely been done before, creating a new chapter in the histories of science and American politics.
Author : Guy Dauncey
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1550924974
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Cancer written by Guy Dauncey and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer -- the word strikes fear in people's hearts. With more people getting cancer every year, the big question must be: How can we prevent this epidemic? Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic offers solid evidence that many cancers are preventable, since their causes lie with the contamination of our bodies by pollution from the air we breathe, the products we use, the water we drink, and the food we eat. It is not being caused by just diet, smoking, and the noon-day sun! Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic takes a positive, solutions-based approach to this unwanted disease. Its pages are filled with practical advice and success stories that will inspire you to act to protect your family, your neighbors, your fellow workers, and future generations. Each solution is laid out on two pages, with websites for follow-up. It includes solutions for individuals, parents, youth, action groups,healthcare agencies, cities, labor, businesses, governments, andthe world as a whole. It provides clear information about ways to prevent cancer, and should eliminate forever the mistaken belief that we don't know how to stop this terrible epidemic. Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic will appeal to anyone whose life has been touched by cancer, and everyone who wants to stop it.
Author : Dorothy H. Crawford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199653119
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Cancer Virus written by Dorothy H. Crawford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the discovery of the first human cancer virus. Through intriguing accounts that include some remarkable characters and individual stories from around the globe - including the UK, Africa, USA, and China - it tells the story of the Epstein-Barr virus and the understanding of its connections to a variety of other diseases.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312294519
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (945 download)
Download or read book Breast Cancer written by NA NA and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic provides an innovative look at the social and political contexts of breast cancer and examines how this illness has become a social problem. This is not a book about breast cancer as a biological disease, its diagnosis and treatment, or the latest research to cure it. Rather, it looks at how economics, politics, gender, social class, and race-ethnicity have deeply influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and defined and influenced women s experiences with breast cancer. The contributors address the social construction of breast cancer as an illness and as an area of scientific controversy, advocacy, and public policy. Chapters on the history of breast cancer, the health care system, the environment, and the marketing of breast cancer, among others, tease apart the complex social forces that have shaped our collective and individual responses to breast cancer.
Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439170916
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
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Publisher : Am Cncl on Science, Health
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Is There a Cancer Epidemic in the United States? written by and published by Am Cncl on Science, Health. This book was released on with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Chernomas
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
ISBN 13 : 0886273579
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Cancer Epidemic as a Social Event written by Robert Chernomas and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2004 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The means of reducing and effecting the character dominant view of cancer prevention has focused of cancer is to change the working and living almost exclusively on individual lifestyle conditions of the population. [...] Workers demanded higher wages, a shorter The genius of capitalism is a set of property working day, a prohibition on child labour, and rights and laws of motion that has created the better working conditions in the factories and unprecedented wealth of the last few centuries mines. [...] The direct primary necessity through productivity in- and indirect costs of their inputs, production creases, capitalism reduced the part of the work- process and marketing include in addition to ing day during which it was producing the the direct costs of the product the loss of life, equivalent of wages. [...] Challenging the pro- for the cost-minimizing, profit-maximising duction of cancer in the name of economic ef- capitalist firm has tended to generate a more ficiency is both an economic and political proc- energy-and chemical-intensive production proc- ess, often carried out at the level of the state, ess, which in turn has resulted in significant the workplace and the community. [...] In the interest of protect- who are involved in the production and use ing our health, we must adopt an approach of benzene have a heavy responsibility and rooted in the right to a clean and safe envi- a duty to protect their workers and the gen- ronment in the workplace and the commu- eral public against this highly toxic and car- nity.
Author : Dr. Daniel W. Miles
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466975393
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Radioactive Clouds of Death over Utah written by Dr. Daniel W. Miles and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have completed the manuscript with the tentative title Radioactive Clouds of Death Over Utah.. From 1950 to the 1958 moratorium on atmospheric testing, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated over 100 atomic bombs at the Nevada Test Site. The inhabitants of St. George, Utah--the so-called downwinders--were repeatedly in the fly zone of these toxic, wind-blown clouds--so much so that St. George became known nationwide as Fallout City, USA. According to the back cover of John Fuller’s 1984 best seller, The Day We Bomb Utah: America’s Most Lethal Secret, “Within a few years, a plague of cancer and birth defects had ripped through the area---a plague that may have caused the cancer-related deaths of John Wayne and over 100 other cast and crew members of The Conquerer which was filmed only miles from the test site.” (Actually, it was filmed only five miles from St. George.) Utah Congressman Jim Matheson alleged in a recent op-ed article in the Deseret News that the horrendous legacy of radioactive fallout is still killing downwinders. ”Thousands of citizens throughout the West continue to get sick and die from radiation-exposure-caused illnesses.” From an editorial in the February 15, 2001 issue of the Deseret News: “...the federal government literary sacrificed the health of thousands of unsuspecting Utahan and Nevadans.” The focus of Radioactive Clouds of Death Over Utah is to retrospectively consider both the short-term and long-term health effects of radioactive fallout exposure on downwinders from the perspectives of the downwinders, the tort lawyers, the government itself, politicians, producers of five television documentaries, writers of six popular books, hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles and many scientific studies on fallout health effects on Utah residents. Recently the Utah press has featured many fallout-cancer stories giving much weight to anecdotal accounts---downwinders have been featured in the Deseret News 265 times in the last decade. On April 12, 2011 U. S. Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) led a bipartisan group of senators in introducing S-791, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2011, which would among other things expand compensation to downwinders in all counties in Idaho, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, and to areas not now covered in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. Today, with heightened fears about radiation leaks from damage nuclear power plants in Japan and the possibilities of nuclear terrorism, the discussion of fallout-induced cancers in this book provides valuable basic information about what is known about exposure to radiation and its health risks. A balanced perception of the health risks of ionizing radiation is of great societal importance to issues as varied as radiological terrorism, the future of nuclear power, nuclear waste storage, occupational radiation exposure, the clean-up of nuclear waste sites, medical x-rays (whole-body scanning by computed tomography results in much higher organ doses of radiation than conventional single-film x-rays), manned space exploration, and frequent-flyer risks.
Author : Pieter Adriaan Jacobus Holst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789081877626
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (776 download)
Download or read book The Cancer Epidemic written by Pieter Adriaan Jacobus Holst and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Wailoo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195170172
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book How Cancer Crossed the Color Line written by Keith Wailoo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation in cancer awareness, revealing how not only awareness, but cancer prevention, treatment, and survival have all been refracted through the lens of race.Spanning more than a century, the book offers a sweeping account of the forces that simultaneously defined cancer as an intensely individualized and personal experience linked to whites, often categorizing people across the color line as racial types lacking similar personal dimensions. Wailoo describes how theories of risk evolved with changes in women's roles, with African-American and new immigrant migration trends, with the growth of federal cancer surveillance, and with diagnostic advances, racial protest, and contemporary health activism. The book examines such powerful and transformative social developments as the mass black migration from rural south to urban north in the 1920s and 1930s, the World War II experience at home and on the war front, and the quest for civil rights and equality in health in the 1950s and '60s. It also explores recent controversies that illuminate the diversity of cancer challenges in America, such as the high cancer rates among privileged women in Marin County, California, the heavy toll of prostate cancer among black men, and the questions about why Vietnamese-American women's cervical cancer rates are so high.A pioneering study, How Cancer Crossed the Color Line gracefully documents how race and gender became central motifs in the birth of cancer awareness, how patterns and perceptions changed over time, and how the "war on cancer" continues to be waged along the color line.
Author : Judith Brady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 1 in 3 written by Judith Brady and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabel dos Santos Silva
Publisher : IARC
ISBN 13 : 9789283204053
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Cancer Epidemiology written by Isabel dos Santos Silva and published by IARC. This book was released on 1999 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic textbook addressed to medical and public health students, clinicians, health professionals, and all others seeking to understand the principles and methods used in cancer epidemiology. Written by a prominent epidemiologist and experienced teacher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the text aims to help readers become competent in the use of basic epidemiological tools and capable of exercising critical judgment when assessing results reported by others. Throughout the text, a lively writing style and numerous illustrative examples, often using real research data, facilitate an easy understanding of basic concepts and methods. Information ranges from an entertaining account of the origins of epidemiology, through advice on how to overcome some of the limitations of survival analysis, to a checklist of questions to ask when considering sources of bias. Although statistical concepts and formulae are presented, the emphasis is consistently on the interpretation of the data rather than on the actual calculations. The text has 18 chapters. The first six introduce the basic principles of epidemiology and statistics. Chapters 7-13 deal in more depth with each of the study designs and interpretation of their findings. Two chapters, concerned with the problems of confounding and study size, cover more complex statistical concepts and are included for advanced study. A chapter on methodological issues in cancer prevention gives examples of epidemiology's contribution to primary prevention, screening and other activities for early detection, and tertiary prevention. The concluding chapters review the role of cancer registries and discuss practical considerations that should be taken into account in the design, planning, and conduct of any type of epidemiological research.
