Cancer Crusade

This book is the definitive account of how private citizens, led by Mary Lasker, Sidney Farber, Laurence Rockefeller, Benno Schmidt, and Ann Landers, persuaded Congress to enact the "War on Cancer" legislation; how Senator Edward Kennedy championed the cause in the US Senate; how Rep. Paul Rogers brokered a compromise that kept the National Cancer Institute within the National Institutes of Health; and how President Richard Nixon embraced the legislation even though he had earlier proposed to cut the cancer research budget. In the wave of technological enthusiasm from putting a man on the moon, the account documents the exaggerated claims for cancer research advanced by advocates of the legislation and the sober evaluation by the scientific community of prospects for a cure for cancer. The 1971 National Cancer Act set the stage for major expansion of federal financing of cancer research.

Aceasta carte este relatarea definitiva a modului in care cetatenii privati, condusi de Mary Lasker, Sidney Farber, Laurence Rockefeller, Benno Schmidt si Ann Landers, au convins Congresul sa adopte legislatia „Razboiul impotriva cancerului”; modul in care senatorul Edward Kennedy a sustinut cauza in Senatul SUA; modul in care Rep. Paul Rogers a intermediat un compromis care a mentinut Institutul National al Cancerului in cadrul Institutelor Nationale de Sanatate; si modul in care presedintele Richard Nixon a imbratisat legislatia, chiar daca acesta propusese mai devreme sa reduca bugetul pentru cercetarea cancerului.