Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer—an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. 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. Amidst furious debates over its causes and treatments, scientists generate reams of data—information that ultimately obscures as much as it clarifies. Award-winning anthropologist S. Lochlann Jain deftly unscrambles the high stakes of the resulting confusion.
Skillfully reading through across a variety of material which includes history, oncology, law, financial aspects, and literature, Jain describes the way a national culture that concurrently aims to deny, make money from, and cure cancer entraps us in a condition of paradox-one which makes the field of cancer virtually impossible to navigate for doctors, patients, caretakers, and policy makers alike. This chronicle, burning with emergency and substance leavened with brio and wit, provides a lucid help guide to understanding and moving the quicksand of uncertainty in the centre of cancer. Malignant vitally changes the relation to a legendary fight we've been losing for many years: world war 2 on cancer.
ISBN: 0520276566, 0520276574 | 2013 | EPUB | 304 pages | 4 MB
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