Vitamin C and Cancer

Vitamin C and Cancer: Medicine or Politics? is a book by Evelleen Richards, published in 1991 by Macmillan.[1][2] It examines the scientific, institutional and social debates surrounding the use of vitamin C as a cancer treatment, steming from the claims made by Linus Pauling and his collaborators.[3][4][5]

Content

The book reconstructs the key episodes of the public debate over vitamin C and cancer, tracing the historical developments from the initial clinical studies that supported vitamin C as anticancer therapy, to the later evdience produce by the Mayo Clinic studies that challenged the earlier results.[4][5]

Richards suggests that the evaluation of medical treatments does not rest solely on objective experimental clinical evidence, but it also shaped by broader social, economic and political pressures.[5]

Reception

The book has been reviewed in various academic journals in the fields of medicine, sociology and history of science.[2][4][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Richards, Evelleen (1991). Vitamin C and Cancer: Medicine or Politics?. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-09606-0.
  2. 1 2 Segerstråle, Ullica (1992-01-31). "Beleaguering the Cancer Establishment: Vitamin C and Cancer. Medicine or Politics? Evelleen Richards. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991. xiv, 269 pp. $35". Science. 255 (5044): 613–615. doi:10.1126/science.255.5044.613.
  3. ↑ Apple, Rima (1993). "Vitamin C and Cancer: Medicine or Politics? By Evelleen Richards". Isis. 84: 182–183. doi:10.1086/356441.
  4. 1 2 3 Lawrence, Christopher (December 1992). "Evelleen Richards. Vitamin C and Cancer: Medicine or Politics?Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xiv + 269. ISBN 0-333-44419-1. £35.00". The British Journal for the History of Science. 25 (4): 499–500. doi:10.1017/S0007087400030016. ISSN 1474-001X.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Jevons, Fred (1992-06-01). "Vitamin C and Cancer: Medicine or Politics? by Evelleen Richards (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1991), pp. xiv + 269, £ 35.00, ISBN 0-333-44419-1". Prometheus. 10: 139–140. doi:10.1080/08109029208629523. ISSN 1470-1030.
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