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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paul Marks M.D., President Emeritus of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital, attributes the elusive nature of cancer's cure to its inherently anarchic processes. In 1950, the discovery of cancer was all but a death sentence. By 1980, 214 of every 100,000 Americans died from cancer. As late as 1986, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed the less-than-optimistic outlook cancer research, publishing the condemning sentence: "We...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
x, 737 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In "Golden Holocaust", Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of...
Series
Publisher
American Cancer Society
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Covering everything from risk factors to living well after treatment, a pocket-sized reference helps patients to make informed decisions and incorporates into the latest edition the most current patient treatment guidelines, recommended questions to ask a health-care team and an advanced glossary of cancer-related terms.
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The longest war in the modern era, longer than the Cold War, has been the war on cancer. Cancer is a complex, evasive enemy, and there was no quick victory in the fight against it. But the battle has been a monumental test of medical and scientific research and fundraising acumen, as well as a moral and ethical challenge to the entire system of medicine. In A New Deal for Cancer, some of today's leading thinkers, activists, and medical visionaries...
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
What Did We Learn From Innovator TV Meteorologists?Linking This Study of the Innovators With Current Findings; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: News Coverage of Cancer Research: Does Disclosure of Scientific Uncertainty Enhance Credibility?; Capturing Perceptions of Credibility; Uncertainty and Credibility; Method; Results; Discussion; References; Chapter 9: Evaluating Online Health Information Systems; Introduction; Formative Research; Process...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
A thoroughly enthralling book that proves the truth of the adage, ""with age comes wisdom"" Based on video recorded interviews and extensive surveys of more than 450 Centenarians, this unforgettable book brings you into a world few human beings have ever known. What must it be like to have lived an entire century-and not just any century, but one of the most fertile, productive, cataclysmic, revolutionary hundred-year periods in the history of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Max Pauling, of Murder in Foggy Bottom, is coaxed out of a restless retirement by another "ex-" CIA colleague. The case that tempts him is one involving a large American pharmaceutical firm that may be using a German company as a front to get around the U.S. scientific and technical embargo of Cuba.
What's at stake? An ex-senator, who heads up a drug company, is after big game: the surprising and stunning medical research being...
What's at stake? An ex-senator, who heads up a drug company, is after big game: the surprising and stunning medical research being...
12) The magic bullet
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
...Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare. After young sailors began suddenly dying with mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant...
20) Last redemption
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rick Cahill is finally living a settled, happy life. His fiancée, Leah Landingham, is pregnant with their first child and he is doing PI work that pays well and keeps him out of danger. Then a doctor gives him the bad news about the headaches he's been suffering--CTE, the pro football disease that leads to senility and early death--a secret he keeps from Leah and his best friend Moira MacFarlane. When Moira asks him to monitor her son, Luke--who's...
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