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That "situation" was charged with political overtones, forces with which scientists were ill at ease. Although Congress was ultimately convinced of the necessity for continuing the new cancer program within the structure of NIH, a compromise of S.34 in the form of Bill S.1828, the internal politics.
The Politics of Cancer is a 600+ page political statement. Starting from the premises that a high percentage of cancers are caused by exposure to environmental agents and that the latent period between exposure and clinical cancer is 15 to 20 years, Dr Epstein discloses major and minor carcinogenic experiences in the workplace, the personal ...
- Richard L. Meyer
- 1981
The Politics of Cancer: Malignant Indifference analyzes the policy environment of cancer in America: the actors, the political institutions, the money, and the disease itself, identifying how haphazard U.S. government policy toward cancer research has been and how the president, Congress, government bureaucracies, and even the cancer industry ha...
1. März 2014 · In this article we review what factors are informing and influencing the political debate on cancer economics across Europe and North America. We have undertaken a comprehensive analysis of the literature and supplemented this with key informant interviews within each region. An important theme is the increasing role of individual ...
- Ajay Aggarwal, Ophira Ginsburg, Tito Fojo
- 2014
Despite such political failings, The Politics of Cancer is an impressive book. It contains all the necessary information — sufficient for scientists, political activists, or working people — to make an independent analysis. It has opened the door to political solutions of what many would like us to think are purely medical or scientific ...
A renowned expert on toxic and carcinogenic hazards due to chemical pollution voices concern that most human cancer is environmental in origin and points out that the barriers to reducing cancer incidence are economic and political rather than scientific. Sprache. Englisch. Herausgeber. Doubleday. Erscheinungstermin. 1. Oktober 1979. ISBN-10.
- Taschenbuch
This book examines the politics of cancer, explains how our government is intrinsically tied to cancer research efforts, and documents how major political actors make cancer policy and are influenced in their decision making by political, social, scientific, and economic variables.
