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Cancer: Misfortune or carelessness?
Author(s) -
Treasure Peter
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01067.x
Subject(s) - carelessness , misfortune , treasure , roulette , nothing , testimonial , psychoanalysis , history , law and economics , law , political science , sociology , medicine , business , psychology , advertising , narrative , art , philosophy , literature , psychiatry , epistemology , archaeology , geometry , mathematics
Public debate about the cause of cancer often falls between two extremes: either there's nothing you can do about it, or it's all your fault. But the game of roulette offers a more nuanced way to think about the disease, writes Peter Treasure