The Dread Disease

Cancer and Modern American Culture

James T. Patterson

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    Prologue: The Travail of General Grant

    1. Cancerphobia in the Late Nineteenth Century

    2. The Rise of the Doctors

    3. The Alliance against Cancer

    4. The Wilderness Years

    5. Government Joins the Fight

    6. Hymns to Science and Prayers to God

    7. The Research Explosion

    8. Smoking and Cancer

    9. Popular Fears, Official Dreams

    10. The Alliance under Siege

    11. More Promises, More Fears

    Bibliographic Note

    Notes

    Index

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James T. Patterson is Professor of History at Brown University.