Book ID: CBB000951826

Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War (2009)

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Leopold, Ellen (Author)


Rutgers University Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: xi + 284 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the Cold War's continuing effects on the way researchers, doctors, patients, and politicians think about and act on the fight against cancer.


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Review Kutcher, Gerald (2009) Review of "Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War". Social History of Medicine (p. 627). unapi

Review Creager, Angela N. H. (2010) Review of "Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 151). unapi

Essay Review Santesmases, María Jesús (2010) Life and Death in the Atomic Era. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 409-418). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Baie, Mona
Levy, Moran
Tinn, Honghong
Frezza, Giulia
Eyal, Gil
Wang, Hsiu-Yun
Journals
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Social History of Medicine
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Medical History
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
University of Nebraska Press
University of Chicago Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Editrice Bibliografica
Duke University Press
Concepts
Cancer; tumors
Medicine and society
Public health
Cold War
Metaphors; analogies
Disease and diseases
People
Sontag, Susan
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Mann, Marty
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
England
Kenya
West Germany
Latin America
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