Kamerer Eva: Svirepi suparnik: filozofija raka

Name: Svirepi suparnik: filozofija raka
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Author: Kamerer Eva

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Author: Kamerer Eva
Publisher: Fedon
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 78514

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Svirepi suparnik: filozofija raka

Kamerer Eva

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Eva Kamerer: Fierce Rival: The Philosophy of Cancer

The collective anxiety and worry caused by the covid epidemic has almost imperceptibly given way to concerns about climate change. Snowstorms and droughts of unprecedented proportions are watched with horror by mankind. Catastrophic predictions centered on images of a ravaged Earth go hand in hand with calls to imagine a future in which our planet will be less hospitable than it is now due to the long-term effects of pollution. Imagining the future in itself is very interesting, although the projections are quite vague and uncertain. What will our world look like in the future? What will it look like in fifty years? We could replace general pessimism with deep optimism and imagine that fifty years from now people will live in a world where many things will be better than today: it could be, for example, a world where cancer is curable.

With such optimism, Richard Nixon signed the American National Cancer Act fifty years ago (1971), which began a systematic and organized search for effective cancer therapy, a search popularly called the "war on cancer". In that document, the fight against cancer is compared to landing a man on the moon. Like most analogies, this one rests on something uncertain: finding a cure for cancer is as big and difficult a task as landing a man on the moon, but just as scientists and engineers have overcome the difficulties of going to the moon, so will the fight against cancer. Unfortunately, landing on a distant celestial body turned out to be a much simpler task than finding an effective therapy against the small cell mass that sometimes grows inside us. Failure creates discomfort, and discomfort often manifests itself in unusual ways. Thus, the new American program to fight cancer, which was launched in 2016, got its name from a former analogy that turned out to be inadequate: the program is called "Cancer Moonshot". Despite the new beginning, scientists' efforts to defeat the disease are only partially successful. It's not that research doesn't produce any therapeutic results, it's just that success is far less than would be expected given the effort and resources involved. And when we are faced with such a dangerous disease as cancer, this difference is crucial.

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