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From the National Book Award finalist, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a searing, haunting and deeply personal account of the War on Cancer.

Never interested in science, it wasn't until he began working as an investigative journalist assigned to interview some of the pioneers in nutritional and alternative medicine that he began to be inspired by geniuses such as 2-time noble laureate Linus Pauling. Through Kelley's own cancer recovery and self-experimentation, he intuited the work of John Beard, DSc,1 around the relevance of pancreatic enzymes to cancer treatment and also developed an appreciation for the role of detox and the infamous coffee enema.

[...] the Royal Jennerian Society was established to provide vaccination to poor people, with the King as its patron. [...] effectiveness was associated with recent vaccination, and revaccination was introduced on a national scale in Germany.

The medical community has orchestrated breastfeeding campaigns in response to low breastfeeding rates twice in US history. The first campaigns occurred in the early 20th century after reformers linked diarrhea, which caused the majority of infant deaths, to the use of cows’ milk as an infant food. Today, given studies showing that numerous diseases and conditions can be prevented or limited in severity by prolonged breastfeeding, a practice shunned by most American mothers, the medical community is again inaugurating efforts to endorse breastfeeding as a preventive health measure. This article describes infant feeding practices and resulting public health campaigns in the early 20th and 21st centuries and finds lessons in the original campaigns for the promoters of breastfeeding today.

The history of the control of infectious disease reflects the balance between our understanding of the nature of infection, the mechanisms of host resistance and the available technology to deliver an intervention. However, behind this ‘biomedical' construct lies a deeper set of issues which embody serendipity, public understanding, and population-based intervention and its acceptability by the wider community, often complicated by the decisions and subsequent vacillations of policy makers.

Both forms of domination came to be challenged late in that decade, as television began to change the context in which these films were viewed, and as the cancer organization began to increase the number of educational films it produced and to broaden the range of subjects covered by its movies beyond its earlier focus on persuading people to seek early detection and treatment. Movies were of particular interest to the ASCC/ACS because the organization argued that visual media had a unique power to shape public attitudes and beliefs, a power, as this essay will show, that textual and aural media were said to lack. The ASCC/ ACS's hope was that, by offering a reassuring salvation story about the curability of cancer, the conversion narrative would help to calm the fears generated by the movie, the disease, or the combination of both, and so remove a barrier to people's willingness to go to their physicians. From its creation in 1913, the Society argued that for cancer control to succeed, Americans had to be persuaded to abandon past practices and to seek qualified medical assistance at the first sign of what might be cancer, and from the late 1910s, it worked to persuade Americans to go for regular medical checkups, even if they felt well.5 In its view, treatment was most likely to work either before the tumor arose, if a \"precancerous\" condition could be identified, or in the early stages of the disease itself, while the tumor was still a local, circumscribed entity, before it spread to other parts of the body and the possibility of successful treatment began to fade (See figure 1). 6 The problem, the ASCC/ACS argued, was that patients often arrived in the doctor's office long after the best opportunities for successful treatment were gone.7 The early signs of cancer could be subtle and easily missed, and pain or debility often occurred too late in the course of the disease to prompt people to see their physicians before the disease spread and became incurable.\\n 1951 Worry and Doubt 1954 Operation Cancer Kentucky Division of ACS and WHAS-TV.

Reviews evolution of the concept of primary prevention in the past 40 years and cites progress in overcoming significant early deterrents (e.g., loosely anchored, overinclusive definitions; weak supporting empirical base) to this development. Highlights the growing trend to define the concept specifically around the yoked notions of risk, and the goal of forestalling major psychological dysfunction. This de facto shift in definitional emphasis has obscured primary prevention's early vision of promoting health and wellness. Stresses need for a comprehensive, multilevel, proactive approach targeted systematically toward the enhancement of psychological wellness in all people, from the start.