In another post I have written about science writer George Johnson and his new book, "The Cancer Chronicles" where he --prompted by his wife's cancer--looks carefully at the science of cancer and its treatments. This week in the Wall Street Journal's book column, Five Best, Johnson selects the five best books about illness.
He has chosen winners--Sontag, Solzhenitsyn, Mann and ones I had not thought of but now want to read--especially The Magic Mountain.
Here is the link to his article about the five best books about disease:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324108204579024801874100772.html
PS...if you too thought The Wall Street Journal was only for business and finance types you are missing some of the best art, literature and cultural writing. I made that mistake too for too long. Now I cannot wait to get my Wall Street Journal on Saturdays.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324108204579024801874100772.html
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New Books About Cancer and Cancer Research
In today's Wall Street Journal there is a review by Laura Landro of two new books about cancer. Her review as well as the two books make good reading.
"The Truth in Small Doses" by Clifton Leaf--a former Fortune editor and survivor of Hodgkin's lymphoma, focuses on the limited progress made in the war on cancer. He challenges the "cancer-industrial-complex" and with his business analysis skills analyzes the overspending on drug research at the cost of early detection.
"The Cancer Chronicles" is by George Johnson--a science writer who has cared for his wife through her long and excruciating aggressive gynecological cancer. He focuses, naturally, on the science of cancer, environment, trigger cells, molecular change and the body's biochemical responses.
It's interesting that both professionals chose to find their own way into the mysteries of cancer based on their professional expertise--business and scientific inquiry--after being touched most personally by the disease or sets of illnesses that cancer represents.
Here's the link to the story in today's Wall Street Journal. Take a look:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323639704579012772893323140.html
"The Truth in Small Doses" by Clifton Leaf--a former Fortune editor and survivor of Hodgkin's lymphoma, focuses on the limited progress made in the war on cancer. He challenges the "cancer-industrial-complex" and with his business analysis skills analyzes the overspending on drug research at the cost of early detection.
"The Cancer Chronicles" is by George Johnson--a science writer who has cared for his wife through her long and excruciating aggressive gynecological cancer. He focuses, naturally, on the science of cancer, environment, trigger cells, molecular change and the body's biochemical responses.
It's interesting that both professionals chose to find their own way into the mysteries of cancer based on their professional expertise--business and scientific inquiry--after being touched most personally by the disease or sets of illnesses that cancer represents.
Here's the link to the story in today's Wall Street Journal. Take a look:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323639704579012772893323140.html
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