A New Deal for Cancer
A New Deal for Cancer

Author: Abbe R. Gluck

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1541700627

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An unprecedented constellation of experts—leading cancer doctors, policymakers, cutting-edge researchers, national advocates, and more—explore the legacy and the shortcomings from the fifty-year war on cancer and look ahead to the future. The longest war in the modern era, longer than the Cold War, has been the war on cancer. Cancer is a complex, evasive enemy, and there was no quick victory in the fight against it. But the battle has been a monumental test of medical and scientific research and fundraising acumen, as well as a moral and ethical challenge to the entire system of medicine. In A New Deal for Cancer, some of today’s leading thinkers, activists, and medical visionaries describe the many successes in the long war and the ways in which our deeper failings as a society have held us back from a more complete success. Together they present an unrivaled and nearly complete map of the battlefield across dimensions of science, government, equity, business, the patient provider experience, and more, documenting our emerging understanding of cancer’s many unique dimensions and offering bold new plans to enable the American health care system to deliver progress and hope to all patients.

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Publisher: IOS Press

Published:

Total Pages: 4947

ISBN-13:

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Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century
Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century

Author: Caroline Hannaway

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 158603832X

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." . . based on a conference that was held at the National Institutes of Health in December 2005 to promote historical research on biomedical science in the twentieth century"--p. ix.

Women, Art and the New Deal
Women, Art and the New Deal

Author: Katherine H. Adams

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-01-04

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1476662975

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In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers, photographers, poster artists, dramatists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers and choreographers, as well as journalists, historians and researchers. Secretary of Commerce and supervisor of the WPA Harry Hopkins hailed it a "renascence of the arts, if we can call it a rebirth when it has no precedent in our history." Women were eminently involved, creating a wide variety of art and craft, interweaving their own stories with those of other women whose lives might not otherwise have received attention. This book surveys the thousands of women artists who worked for the U.S. government, the historical and social worlds they described and the collaborative depiction of womanhood they created at a pivotal moment in American history.

Making Mice
Making Mice

Author: Karen Rader

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0691187584

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Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. Karen Rader introduces us to mouse "fanciers" who bred mice for different characteristics, to scientific entrepreneurs like geneticist C. C. Little, and to the emerging structures of modern biomedical research centered around the National Institutes of Health. Throughout Making Mice, Rader explains how the story of mouse research illuminates our understanding of key issues in the history of science such as the role of model organisms in furthering scientific thought. Ultimately, genetically standardized mice became icons of standardization in biomedicine by successfully negotiating the tension between the natural and the man-made in experimental practice. This book will become a landmark work for its understanding of the cultural and institutional origins of modern biomedical research. It will appeal not only to historians of science but also to biologists and medical researchers.

The Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary History of Medicine Days Conference 2011
The Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary History of Medicine Days Conference 2011

Author: Aleksandra Loewenau

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1443884545

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This volume is the third in a peer-reviewed series of Proceedings Volumes from the Calgary History of Medicine Days conferences, produced by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The History of Medicine Days is a two day, national conference held annually at the University of Calgary, Canada, where undergraduate and early graduate students from across Canada, the US, UK, and Europe give paper and poster presentations on a variety of topics from the history of medicine and health care. The selected 2011 conference papers assembled in this volume particularly comprise insights into the histories of Wome.

Congressional Record
Congressional Record

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 1248

ISBN-13:

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Environmental Oncology
Environmental Oncology

Author: Eric H. Bernicker

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-08-30

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 3031337506

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This book covers the wide range of malignant illness and where they intersect with environmental factors. Chapters explore the importance of acknowledging and dealing with the societal implications of anthropogenic climate change, a wider appreciation of the many ways that human industry and activity is changing the environment and contributing to human disease is imperative. In addition to how particular exposures relate to certain malignancies, the book explores historical events that led to the development of cancers in order to help policy makers and patient advocates understand where we have been when considering future initiatives. It also discusses the disparities involved in environmental toxin exposure and look at these cancers in light of the need to reduce cancer disparities. Given the ongoing ecological crisis from climate change and expanding human population and industrialization, this book examines pollution and ecological change to impacts and where human disease can be prevented.

Giants in Their Time
Giants in Their Time

Author: Norman K. Risjord

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780742527850

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In Giants in their Time, the latest volume in the Representative Americans Series, noted historian Norman K. Risjord uses biographical sketches to create a composite portrait of the United States during this dynamic and trying period. From sketches of Aimee Semple McPherson to Duke Ellington, Robert Oppenheimer to the Nisei Japanese, Risjord makes the past more vivid and concrete, revealing a heritage that present-day readers can feel and experience.

Time
Time

Author: Briton Hadden

Publisher:

Published: 1942

Total Pages: 1278

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