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Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer, by Vinay Prasad, Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.

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Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer, by Vinay Prasad, Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2022

Anya Plutynski*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy Washington University of St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA

Abstract

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CQ Review
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Notes

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