Malignant Jain S. Lochlann
Malignant Jain S. Lochlann Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer--an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Amidst furious debates over its causes and treatments,…
Specifikacia Malignant Jain S. Lochlann
Malignant Jain S. Lochlann
Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer--an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Amidst furious debates over its causes and treatments, scientists generate reams of data--information that ultimately obscures as much as it clarifies. Through a powerful combination of cultural analysis and memoir, this stunningly original book explores why cancer remains so confounding, despite the billions of dollars spent in the search for a cure.
Lochlann Jain deftly unscrambles the high stakes of the resulting confusion. Award-winning anthropologist S. Expertly reading across a range of material that includes history, oncology, law, economics, and literature, Jain explains how a national culture that simultaneously aims to deny, profit from, and cure cancer entraps us in a state of paradox--one that makes the world of cancer virtually impossible to navigate for