[Sci-tech-public] “The Wrong War--The Secret History of the War on Cancer” (Devra Davis talk, April 9, 5 pm)

[Debbie Meinbresse]

"The Wrong War--The Secret History
of the War on Cancer"
Dr. Devra Davis
Director, Center for Environmental Oncology,
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Wednesday, April 9
5pm, 3-270

Devra Davis is an epidemiologist who also holds a Ph.D. in science 
studies. She has been a leading figure in the public and scientific 
debates over the environmental causes of cancer. Davis is currently 
the director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the 
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Her book When Smoke Ran 
Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against 
Pollution won a National Book Award. Her new book is entitled The 
Secret History of the War on Cancer.

sponsored by the MIT Anthropology Program, the Science, Technology 
and Society Program (STS) and the Environmental Policy and Planning 
program (EPP)
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