Malignancy in an Imperfect World By Walter Cummins Click here for PDF version.   When the Stanford anthropologist S. Lochlain Jain received a diagnosis of breast cancer in her mid thirties, she did what many educated cancer victims do: she wrote a book, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013). In Jain’s case, her work was written after medical intervention resulted in apparent remission, when she could consider the experience in retrospect and examine it in the […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: cancer, carcinogens, health, mortality, pharmaceuticals