Chapter 2. The Court Considers Informed Consent

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Double Jeopardy: Cancer and “Cure” 30
6. Chapter 2. The Court Considers Informed Consent 42
7. Chapter 3. The Rise of Radioactive Cobalt 59
8. Chapter 4. The Cobalt Back Story: “A Little of the Buchenwald Touch” 80
9. Chapter 5. Behind the Fallout Controversy: The Public, the Press, and Conflicts of Interest 109
10. Chapter 6. Cancer and Fallout: Science by Circumvention 131
11. Chapter 7. Paradise Lost: Radiation Enters the Mainstream 147
12. Chapter 8. Subdued by the System: Cancer in the Courts, Compensation, and the Changing Concept of Risk 164
13. Chapter 9. Hidden Assassin: The Individual at Fault 191
14. Chapter 10. Experiments by Other Means: Clinical Trials and the Primacy of Treatment over Prevention 207
15. Notes 235
16. Index 275