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Book SynopsisCancer can kill: this fact makes it concrete. Still, it's a devious knave. Nearly every American will experience it up-close and all too personally, wondering why the billions of research dollars thrown at the word haven't exterminated it from the English language. This title deals with this cancer.
Trade Review"Brilliant." -- Barbara Kiser Nature "A whip-smart read." -- Becky Lang Discover "A dark journey into cancer as it is understood, diagnosed and treated in America today." Kirkus "The book effortlessly combines the author's roles as a first-person participant in cancer diagnosis and an anthropological authority on why we Americans tolerate high rates of cancer." http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/cancers-poison-gift Public Books "Malignant is a wonderful book... In this candid and critical analysis, [Jain]... eloquently captures the ambiguity and uncertainty that undergird every aspect of cancer." Journal of Anthropological Research
Table of ContentsIntroduction: We Just Don't Know It Yet 1. Living in Prognosis: The Firing Squad of Statistics 2. Poker Face: Gaming a Lifespan 3. Cancer Butch: Trip Up the Fast Lane 4. Lost Chance: Medical Mistakes 5. The Mortality Effect: The Future in Cancer Trials 6. Inconceivable: Where IVF Goes Bad 7. Can Sir: What Screening Doesn't Do 8. Fallout: Minuets in the Key of Fear 9. Rubble: Bakelite Bodies Conclusion: Shameless Acknowledgments Notes Index
