The End of Disease!
摘要
Since the War on Cancer is now 50 years old, it offers a data-rich counterexample to consider alongside confident claims about the imminence of technological solutions to civilizational problems. Simply put, Susan Sontag’s description of the problem in 1978 still rings true today: “in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured,” cancer remains “intractable and capricious.” (Sontag 1978, p. 677).