One in Three
Adam Wishart
#3150 of 3,809 books · #405 in Science & Technology
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize (2007).
In Wishart's personal, journalistic take on the history of cancer, he offers an encouraging story of science's progress in changing the outlook on cancer from a disease that one dies from to one that can be lived with.
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780802143488
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Awards
- Royal Society Science Book PrizeShortlisted(2007)
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