1. Medical Care as Trade
PART I
Radiation Enterprise, 1895 to World War II
2. The Medical Radium Industry
3. The General Electric Company Dominates X-ray
4. Competing Research Universities
PART II
Competitive Megavoltage, World War II to the 1970s
5. Megavoltage Competition in Academia and Industry
6. Medicine’s Nuclear Arms Race
7. An Economic Success Story at Stanford
8. Radiation Therapy Politics
PART III
Financializing Medicine, 1970s to the 2010s
9. Speculating on Proton Therapy
10. Rationalizing Radiation Therapy, Reforming Health Care
11. Choosing Health Over Wealth
Selected Bibliography
Index
Biography
Barbara Bridgman Perkins is the author of The Medical Delivery Business: Health Reform, Childbirth, and the Economic Order and articles in medical history and public health policy.
"Do commercials for Gamma Knife, proton therapy and other types of radiosurgery for cancer fill you will both hope and trepidation? If so, you should read Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market. Barbara Bridgman Perkins has written a wise and fastidiously-researched history of radiation oncology that explores the intersection of big business, the zeal to cure cancer and the unending allure of the x-ray."Barron H. Lerner, Author of The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America and
