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Rating: (2 reviews) Author: S. Lochlann Jain ISBN : 9780520276574 New from $18.01 Format: PDF

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Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer—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 data—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 paradox—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.

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• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press (October 15, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520276574
• ISBN-13: 978-0520276574
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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It is a book by someone who suffered the worst of the desease, neglect by the specialist when the cancer was growing, several extensive surgical operations, chemotherapy, radiation, you name it. She survived, not to tell the tale so the reader would commiserate with her, but to thoroughly research Cancer in multiple fields and write a masterpiece; not just for academics but for the physicians, lawyers, politicians concerned with the welfare of their voters and not the least patients. A great work, it will be read and reread for years to come.

By Sudhir Jain

I read this book in draft form before it was published, but can attest to the fact that it's a must-read book for anyone whose life has intersected with cancer (which is all of us). The book is an anthropologist's perspective on being a cancer patient and is a wide-ranging, personal, sometimes funny, deeply perceptive take on cancer research, ads, survivor culture, cultural assumptions, and metaphors, the way cancer pervades our culture and yet remains, for the most part, incomprehensible to us on a deeper level. It's definitely a scholarly book, full of academic meat, but don't be put off by that. It's written with a rich voice, sometimes brash, sometimes lyric, and it makes the journey through facts and data accessible even to a non-academic reader. I won't be surprised if this book becomes one of the lasting references on a disease that is shaping, killing, and supporting our culture.

By Truck Lover