Curing Cancerphobia: How Risk, Fear, and Worry Mislead Us - Hardcover
Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with
Curing Cancerphobia: How Risk, Fear, and Worry Mislead Us
Our fear of cancer causes great harm to individual health and to society.
The fear of cancer is understandable. But that fear is in some ways outdated, as it fails to account for the medical progress made against this family of diseases. In Curing Cancerphobia, David Ropeik reveals the fascinating historical and psychological roots of our fear of cancer and documents the dramatic health an...
David Ropeik (BOSTON, MA) is a retired instructor who taught at Harvard University. He is the author of How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts. He was formerly an award-winning broadcast journalist in Boston, a science columnist for the Boston Globe, a board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts...
Contributor(s)
Author
Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.