Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322) and index.
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue: The Travail of General Grant""; ""1 Cancerphobia in the Late Nineteenth Century""; ""2 The Rise of the Doctors""; ""3 The Alliance against Cancer""; ""4 The Wilderness Years""; ""5 Government Joins the Fight""; ""6 Hymns to Science and Prayers to God""; ""7 The Research Explosion""; ""8 Smoking and Cancer""; ""9 Popular Fears, Official Dreams""; ""10 The Alliance under Siege""; ""11 More Promises, More Fears""; ""Bibliographic Note""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
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Relates the cultural history of cancer and examines society's reaction to the disease through a century of American life.
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