The Secret History of the War on Cancer » (Reprint)

Known around the world for her groundbreaking research on the environmental causes of breast cancer and chronic disease, Devra Davis -- with her 2002 National Book Award-Nominated When Smoke Ran Like Water -- has opened our eyes to the very real pollution epidemic.

From the National Book Award finalist, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a searing, haunting and deeply personal account of the War on Cancer

The Washington Post - David Oshinsky

While much of this may sound familiar to a moderately informed reader, Davis puts it together in a way that illuminates the underbelly of medical research…the best watchdogs are often the most obsessive, using shock and alarm as a prelude to discussion. And for many readers of The Secret History of the War on Cancer, I suspect, Devra Davis is a natural for this role.

Preface

1 The Secret History 3

2 Natural and Other Experiments 17

3 A Broad Enough Principle 45

4 Phantom Collaborators 73

5 Fear Sells 107

6 Making Goods out of Bads 141

7 Saving Cigarettes 169

8 The Good War 199

9 Cancer Doctoring 223

10 Deconstructing Cancer Statistics

11 Doctoring Evidence 267

12 The Harshest of Schoolmasters

13 No Safe Place 329

14 Chasing Tales 363

15 Presumed Innocent 391

Epilogue: Mother's Last 437

Afterword: Bad Dreams 455

Notes 479

Index 513