One in Three
A son's journey into the history and science of cancer
Published on 7. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-86197-782-3 (ISBN)
Description
Here is the exciting, encouraging and positive story of science's progress in changing cancer from what we die from to what we live with. Part memoir, part science, One in Three is the story of the author's father and ultimately the death of an old man, interweaved with the history of the discovery of cancer, its treatment and - increasingly now - its prevention. One-third of us will contract cancer, and One in Three is a personal and authoritative book which will help everyone to understand it without blind terror.
Reviews / Votes
Perhaps the most readable and comprehensive account out there of our battle with the big C. * New Scientist * Both moving and informative * Guardian * One in Three is a different type of cancer book. It is calm, factual, beautifully written, intelligent and moving. ... this book brings understanding, and most of all it also brings some hope * Literary Review * a touching and deeply personal farewell. ... Wishart succeeds brilliantly in constructing a narrative that is a tribute both to his father and the scientists who have partly unpacked the mystery of cancer * Sunday Telegraph * An imaginative fusion of anecdotal detail, medical science and poignant, elegiac narrative marks every chapter of this unusual book... What emerges is a unique profile of a father-son relationship, poignantly affectionate yet utterly devoid of sentimentality. -- John Cornwell * Sunday Times * This book is a remarkable meld of medical history, scientific fact, and the human experience of cancer, once - and to an extent still - the most feared of diseases. Adam Wishart follows his father's experience of cancer, as well as his own as a son, in the most enthralling manner possible. I couldn't commend it more highly. * Claire Rayner * ...few who have read it would write off One In Three, Adam Wishart's fascinating if avowedly non-expert account of the quest for a cure for cancer - woven around the story of his father's struggle against the disease that will afflict one in three of us. * The Telegraph *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
260 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86197-782-3 (9781861977823)
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Person
Adam Wishart is a TV producer and director who has worked on Tomorrow's World and Horizon. He has won Royal Television Society Awards and a BAFTA, writes occasionally for the broadsheets and the New Scientist, and wrote Leaving Reality Behind (4th Estate). He lives in London.