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020			_z9780520956827 (ebook)
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050	0	0	_aRC276 _b.J35 2013
082	0	0	_a362.19699/4 _223
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100	1		_aJain, Sarah S. Lochlann, _d1967-
245	1	0	_aMalignant : _bhow cancer becomes us / _cS. Lochlann Jain.
264		1	_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c[2013]
300			_a290 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Cancer can kill: this fact makes it concrete. Still, it's a devious knave. Nearly every American will experience it up-close and all too personally, wondering why the billions of research dollars thrown at the word haven't exterminated it from the English language. Like a sapper diffusing a bomb, Jain unscrambles the emotional, bureaucratic, medical, and scientific tropes that create the thing we call cancer. Scientists debate even the most basic facts about the disease, while endlessly generated, disputed, population data produce the appearance of knowledge. Jain takes the vacuum at the center of cancer seriously and demonstrates the need to understand cancer as a set of relationships--economic, sentimental, medical, personal, ethical, institutional, statistical. Malignant analyzes the peculiar authority of the socio-sexual psychopathologies of body parts; the uneven effects of expertise and power; the potentially cancerous consequences of medical procedures such as IVF; the huge industrial investments that manifest themselves as bone-cold testing rooms; the legal mess of medical malpractice law; and the teeth-grittingly jovial efforts to smear makeup and wigs over the whole messy problem of bodies spiraling into pain and decay. Malignant examines the painful cognitive dissonances produced by the ways a culture that has relished dazzling success in every conceivable arena have twisted one of its staunchest failures into an economic triumph. The intractable foil to American achievement, cancer hands us -- on a silver platter and ready for Jain's incisively original dissection -- our sacrifice to the American Dream"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650		0	_aCancer _xGovernment policy _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCancer _xResearch _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCancer _xRisk factors _xGovernment policy _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCarcinogens _xGovernment policy _zUnited States.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General _2bisacsh.
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