Cancer Crusade

Cancer Crusade

Author: Richard A Rettig

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0595358470

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This book is the definitive account of how private citizens, led by Mary Lasker, Sidney Farber, Laurence Rockefeller, Benno Schmidt, and Ann Landers, persuaded Congress to enact the "War on Cancer" legislation; how Senator Edward Kennedy championed the cause in the US Senate; how Rep. Paul Rogers brokered a compromise that kept the National Cancer Institute within the National Institutes of Health; and how President Richard Nixon embraced the legislation even though he had earlier proposed to cut the cancer research budget. In the wave of technological enthusiasm from putting a man on the moon, the account documents the exaggerated claims for cancer research advanced by advocates of the legislation and the sober evaluation by the scientific community of prospects for a cure for cancer. The 1971 National Cancer Act set the stage for major expansion of federal financing of cancer research.


Crusade

Crusade

Author: Walter Sanford Ross

Publisher: Arbor House Publishing

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Barb's Miracle

Barb's Miracle

Author: David Staples

Publisher: Coteau Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781894880039

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Barbara's strength and inspiration was to warn 50,000 Canadian school children and millions of other North Americans about the dangers of smoking.


Crusade 2.0

Crusade 2.0

Author: John Feffer

Publisher: City Lights Books

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0872865452

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Examines why anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise and offers ways to defuse the intolerance.


Reader's Guide to the History of Science

Reader's Guide to the History of Science

Author: Arne Hessenbruch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 965

ISBN-13: 1134262949

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The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.