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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
Anya Plutynski*
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Department of Philosophy Washington University of St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2022 , pp. 275 - 278
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3. See note 1, Prasad, Mailankody 2015.

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