Titlebook: Vitamin C and Cancer; Medicine or Politics Evelleen Richards Book 1991 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991

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Charting The Terrainrimarily vegetables and fresh fruits. In human beings deprived of vitamin C, the life-threatening nutritional deficiency disease scurvy develops. That ascorbic acid is the essential nutrient for the prevention and treatment of scurvy has been accepted medical wisdom since the 1930s, when Albert Szen

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The Vitamin C ‘Believers’elaborating the theoretical rationale for the therapeutic use of vitamin C in cancer; Cameron’s consistently encouraging clinical results have fuelled the controversy; and Pauling has brought his great prestige and consummate political and networking skills to the promotion and negotiation of their

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The Second Mayo Clinic Trial: A ‘Conspiracy to Suppress the Truth’?d been concluded and that publication of the results was imminent in the . Pauling asked if Moertel would send him a copy of the manuscript a few weeks before publication, so that he might have time to prepare for the reporters:.On 30 November Moertel confirmed in a letter to Pauling that the paper

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Comparative Analysis of the Controversy: Vitamin C, 5-Fluorouracil and Interferontment by Pauling and Cameron, and evaluated and found ineffective by their orthodox opponents. I have shown that we cannot account for the orthodox consensus on the inefficacy of vitamin C as a cancer treatment in terms of the disinterested and rational processes generally attributed to the applicat

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Conclusion: Making and Creating Choicese . politics. By this I do not mean that we can simply reduce medicine to politics, to arbitrary power as opposed to rational knowledge. Rather, I mean, as this study has made manifest, that medical rationality is a framework of thought and action interpenetrated by professional and socioeconomic in