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Description of  From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk About Cancer

Its hard today to remember how recently cancer was a silent killer, a dreaded disease about which people rarely spoke in public. In hospitals and doctors offices, conversations about malignancy were hushed and hope was limited. In this deeply researched book, Elaine Schattner reveals a sea changefrom before 1900 to the present dayin how ordinary people talk about cancer. Read more