9781412949897
Encyclopedia of cancer and society; 3v.
Ed. by Graham A. Colditz.
Sage Publications
2007
1616 pages
$375.00
Hardcover
RC254
In this three-volume encyclopedia, Colditz (Alvin J. Siteman Canter
Center, Washington U. School of Medicine) presents 750 entries that are
intended to advance understandings of cancer burdens in different
countries, cancer causes, and strategies for prevention, especially as
understood in the context of underlying societal forces that respond to
or ignore the role of industries and social structures in increasing
cancer risk. Thematically, the entries address cancer in society,
business and economics of cancer, types of cancer, major cancer
associations, associations by cancer type, other relevant associations,
biographies of prominent international scientists, major hospitals and
treatment centers, treatments and therapies, alternative treatments and
therapies, known or suspected carcinogens and causes of cancer,
prevention, and cancer by country. Entries typically include guides to
further reading. Each volume includes a fifteen-page color medical atlas
of cancer, a chronology, a glossary, and a cumulative index. The third
volume adds a bibliographic resource guide and an appendix giving cancer
statistics for the United States for 2003.
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