Secret History of the War on Cancer - Tapa dura

The author of the critically acclaimed When Smoke Ran Like Water offers a searing exposé of the mishandling of the War on Cancer, especially in looking at those things known to cause cancer--including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the global environment--because of the influence of industries making cancer-causing products.

Devra Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Professor of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health. She was appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board in 1994 and also served as Scholar in Residence at the National Academy of Science. She works in Pittsburgh, and lives in Washington, D.C. She is married to Richard D. Morgenstern and has two children and two grandchildren.