17 While some of these works got critical accolades and even made it onto public television and radio, their impact on public policy has been limited. 16 More recently, David Michaels, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner have used original industry records to detail the duplicity of researchers and companies in keeping the dangers of a number of industrial materials hidden. 15 Mitchell Gaynor, one of America's top oncologists, lambastes environmental and industrial sources of cancer in his recent works. 14 Sandra Steingraber drew well-deserved attention with her haunting, sometimes humorous books Living Downstream and Having Faith-the latter about becoming a mother as a cancer survivor in a world full of chemical risks. 13 He chronicled the successes of the producers of tobacco and other cancer-causing materials in crafting scientific doubt about their hazards and the politically problematic efforts of the Carter administration to rein in tobacco and industrial chemicals. 12 In 1996, Robert Proctor published a book called Cancer Wars, adopting the title from my own waylaid effort at the time. The War on Cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease. 11 Valiant but little heeded efforts were mounted right before or during the Reagan Revolution by Larry Agran, Sam Epstein and Janette Sherman. The modern critique of our failure to ferret out and act on preventable causes of cancer goes back more than four decades, to Murray Bookchin and Rachel Carson.
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