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Vitamin C and Cancer

Medicine or Politics?

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Evelleen Richards

    1. Science and Technology Studies Dept, University of Wollongong, Australia

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N1-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Evelleen Richards
      Pages 1-14

  3. Interested Parties and the Background to the Controversy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-16
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    2. Charting The Terrain

      • Evelleen Richards
      Pages 17-32

    3. The Vitamin C ‘Believers’

      • Evelleen Richards
      Pages 33-51

    4. The Vitamin C ‘Non-Believers’

      • Evelleen Richards
      Pages 52-71

  4. Reconstructing the Vitamin C and Cancer Controversy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. The Cameron-Pauling Hypothesis and the Vale of Leven Trials

      • Evelleen Richards
      Pages 75-110

    3. The First Mayo Clinic Trial: Pauling’s Head-On Collision with the Scientific Method?

      • Evelleen Richards
      Pages 111-140

    4. The Second Mayo Clinic Trial: A ‘Conspiracy to Suppress the Truth’?

      • Evelleen Richards
      Pages 141-167

  5. The Politics of Therapeutic Evaluation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. The Social Shaping of the Vitamin C and Cancer Controversy

      • Evelleen Richards
      Pages 171-191

    3. Comparative Analysis of the Controversy: Vitamin C, 5-Fluorouracil and Interferon

      • Evelleen Richards
      Pages 192-215

    4. Conclusion: Making and Creating Choices

      • Evelleen Richards
      Pages 216-236

    5. Epilogue

      • Evelleen Richards
      Pages 237-240

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 241-269
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About this book

A study of the development and rejection of vitamin C as a treatment for cancer, this text also explores the evaluation process of such a contentious treatment. Based on social, economic and financial considerations, it sees these decisions as political rather than objective assessments.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Science and Technology Studies Dept, University of Wollongong, Australia

    Evelleen Richards

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Vitamin C and Cancer

  • Book Subtitle: Medicine or Politics?

  • Authors: Evelleen Richards

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09606-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-09606-0Published: 18 June 1991

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 269

  • Topics: Oncology, Biomedicine general

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