... the Lasker Foundation in 1942 to promote medical research. In a cruel and ironic twist of fate, even though he and his wife had joined the American Society for the Control of Cancer – then a sleepy and ineffectual association which the Laskers began to shake up - Albert Lasker’s ad agency was engaged...

...This chapter discusses Mina Bissell's pathbreaking research on cancer. Along with her colleagues and students, Bissell focused her attention on how the causal pathways regulating cell behavior were a two way street. Healthy cells’ and cancer cells’ behavior are both highly context-dependent...

.... Each CSR provides cancer screening recommendations for lung, prostate, and breast cancers. By mobilizes Stephen Toulmin’s model for argumentation and classical rhetoric’s stasis theory, the chapter maps each CSR’s textual features, traces reviewers’ synthesizing activity, and conducts rhetorical...

...This chapter examines the case of experiments purporting to show that saccharin causes bladder cancer in humans, and why despite being replicated on multiple occasions these very good murine experiments did not provide such knowledge about humans. The lesson of the chapter is that even when...

...This book discusses the various investigations into Eugene Saenger's program. It evaluates the complex and mutually supportive relationship between clinical ethics and medical research practices during the cold war, and the symbiotic relationship between military medicine and cancer therapy using...

... later that year. It is possible that cancer was never openly discussed with Maude. In his case report, Eugene Saenger stated that the chemotherapy treatment had markedly decreased the tumor in Maude's breast but that the metastatic lesions continued to grow. The patient's final days were terrible...

...In the 1960s, University of Cincinnati radiologist Eugene Saenger infamously conducted human experiments on patients with advanced cancer to examine how total body radiation could treat the disease. But, under contract with the Department of Defense, Saenger also used those same patients as proxies...

... that public education campaigns have been efficient at communicating the danger of sunlight and skin cancer. Ultraviolet radiation became far more of a health threat in the last quarter of the twentieth century than it had been in the first three. The story of American sunlight is one of powerful new fears...

...This chapter focuses on the debates concerning the relations between the US cooperative oncology groups and the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) of the Division of Cancer Treatment (DCT). It also describes the emergence of an autonomous form of research when the cooperative group program...

...This chapter discusses the major turning points in the clinical trial process and examines the consequences of the oncogene revolution for the conduct of clinical cancer trials. It begins with the introduction of molecular biology into the US cooperative groups. The reorganization of the drug...

...This chapter focuses on cancer screening and the politics of clinical trial research and evidence-based-medicine. It discusses the shift of cancer prevention regime to include rare cancers, specifically in this case anal cancer. An epidemiological narrative brought forward the advocacy driven...

...This chapter focuses on the ways HPV and its role in oropharyngeal cancer shapes oncology and the field of head and neck cancer research, treatment, and care. The focus is on how the sexually-transmitted viral infection of HPV has entered oncology to change doctor-patient dynamics in oncology...

...Chapter 1 discusses how views of cancer as a contagious disease changed in response to the articulation of germ theory in the late nineteenth century. At first, many doctors and microbiologists regarded the idea that cancer was contagious as plausible, but abandoned this idea around 1915. However...

...The changing political circumstances discussed in chapter 4 gave the National Cancer Institute unprecedented resources for biomedical research into cancer. However, this windfall also created concerns for the accountability of scientific research, particularly that supported by peer reviewed grants...

...Most accounts of the political history of the War on Cancer end with the passage of legislation in 1971, but Chapter 8 uses the Virus Cancer Program to examine how the laws passed by Congress were implemented by the National Cancer Institute in cooperation and conflict with communities...

...Chapter 10 explains how molecular approaches to cancer survived a period of political and cultural disillusionment in the late 1970s. Environmental and social approaches to the cancer problem reemerged in national policy discussions. The revival of molecular approaches by the mid-1980s depended...

...This chapter narrates the author's thoughts upon being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2001. He discusses how immunological metaphors play a central role in how we organize our thinking about cancer, how we use immunology to distinguish the village of the healthy from the village of the sick...

... life. Put another way, remission is an indeterminate state par excellence. You are neither sick nor healthy. Seen in this light, remission is an example of what the late Victor Turner called liminality. illness remission Turner Victor liminality Napier A David Songhay Between cancer sickness...

...This chapter describes how the author's experience with cancer compelled him to reconsider what it meant to live anthropology. When he confronted the indeterminate reality of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and remission, his perception of the anthropological odyssey shifted. Faced with a disease...

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