Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us

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Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us

Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancerâ€”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 dataâ€”information that ultimately obscures as much as it clarifies. Award-winning anthropologist S. Lochlann Jain deftly unscrambles the high stakes of the resulting confusion. Expertly reading across a range of material that includes history, oncology, law, economics, and literature, Jain explains how a national culture that simultaneously aims to deny, profit from, and cure cancer entraps us in a state of paradoxâ€”one that makes the world of cancer virtually impossible to navigate for doctors, patients, caretakers, and policy makers alike. This chronicle, burning with urgency and substance leavened with brio and wit, offers a lucid guide to understanding and navigating the quicksand of uncertainty at the heart of cancer. Malignant vitally shifts the terms of an epic battle we have been losing for decades: the war on cancer.

Country	USA
Author	S. Lochlann Jain
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520956827
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	302
PublicationDate	2013-10-15
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2013-08-16
Studio	University of California Press

Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us

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