Volume 46, Number 14 · September 23, 1999
Cancer: What Do They Know?
By Daniel J. Kevles
The Nazi War on Cancer
by Robert N. Proctor
Princeton University Press, 350 pp., $29.95
One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins
by by Robert A. Weinberg
Basic, 170 pp., $21.00
Vivian Bearing, the main character in Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, suffers from advanced metastatic ovarian cancer. Having undergone eight full-dose treatments of an experimental chemotherapy, she muses that her doctors will no doubt write an article for a journal about her.
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