"Explains why a significant body of scientific research has been
largely ignored by cancer research institutions. Hess has clearly
demonstrated the valuable role that social scientists can have in
offering a neutral perspective on medical research and how it is
shaped by cultural bias."
--"Townsend Letter"
"Hess has made a careful study of one of the most intriguing
themes that weaves through the recent history of unconventional
approaches to cancer. Every researcher, physician, and general
reader interested in this field should welcome this important and
incisive contribution."
--"Michael Lerner
President, Commonweal, and author of "Choices in Healing"
Growing numbers of cancer patients are exploring diet, food
supplements, herbs, and nontoxic immunotherapies like bacterial
vaccines as a means of therapy. Yet most cancer research
organizations refuse to even evaluate these alternatives. "Can
Bacteria Cause Cancer?" argues convincingly that unless this
neglected world of alternative therapies is properly scrutinized,
the medical Vietnam of the twentieth century may well affect one in
two people by the twenty-first century.
David J. Hess investigates one of the great medical mysteries of
the twentieth century--the relationship between bacteria and
chronic disease. Recently scientists have overturned long-held
beliefs by demonstrating that bacterial infections cause many
ulcers; they are now reconsidering the role of bacterial infections
in other chronic diseases, such as arthritis. Is it possible, Hess
asks, that bacteria can contribute to the many other known causes
of cancer?
To answer this intriguing question, Hess takes us into the world
of alternative cancerresearchers. Maintaining that their work has
been actively suppressed rather than simply dismissed, he examines
their claims---that bacterial vaccines have led to some dramatic
cases of long-term cancer remission--and the scientific potential
of their theories. Economic interests and cultural values, he
demonstrates, have influenced the rush toward radiation and
chemotherapy and the current cul-de-sac of toxic treatments.
More than a medical mystery story, "Can Bacteria Cause Cancer?"
is a dramatic case study of the failure of the war on cancer.
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