Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market /
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2017.
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Series: | Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine.
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Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book. |
Table of Contents:
- Medical care as trade
- The medical radium industry
- The General Electric Company dominates x-ray
- Competing research universities
- Megavoltage competition in academia and industry
- Medicine's nuclear arms race
- An economic success story at Stanford
- Radiation therapy politics
- Speculating on proton therapy
- Rationalizing radiation therapy, reforming health care
- Choosing health over wealth.