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IT is extremely doubtful if the fear of cancer will be a sufficiently powerful deterrent to make the average man and woman conform to the suggestions for a simpler and nobler way of life which commend themselves to Dr. John Cope. His book is much more a sociological essay than a contribution to the cancer problem, for the nature and causes of cancer are assumed throughout to be well-known degenerative conditions, due to civilisation's flouting of natural law. All the well-worn fallacies of the predisposing factor of age, the healthiness of savage peoples and their freedom from cancer and constipation, and the greater incidence of cancer in women than in men (on the same page as a table showing the contrary)
Cancer: Civilization: Degeneration: the Nature, Causes and Prevention of Cancer, especially in its relation to Civilization and Degeneration.
By John Cope. Pp. xvii + 293. (London: H. K. Lewis and Co., Ltd., 1932.) 15s. net.
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Cancer: Civilization: Degeneration: the Nature, Causes and Prevention of Cancer, especially in its relation to Civilization and Degeneration. Nature 132, 877 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132877b0
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