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Cancer rhetoric’s development in the twentieth-century United States provides a striking example of the risks and rewards of visibility. Twentieth-century efforts to publicize cancer improved the q...

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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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2020-05-26
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10.1080/02773945.2020.1752130
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