Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric

In: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique Series

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. US Cancer Rhetoric: Constructing a People -- 1. Publicizing Cancer: Eugenic Visibility -- 2. Battling Cancer: Heroism and Eugenics -- 3. Thinking Positive: Progressing beyond Cancer -- 4. Knowledge, Power, and Cancer Prevention -- 5. Eugenic Reverberations: What Rhetoric Tells Us about Cancer-and Ourselves -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.