American Notebook Cancer In The U.S.: An Extended Metaphor

American Notebook Cancer In The U.S.: An Extended Metaphor

…. its name has a mysterious and disquieting sound, and no one has ever really understood why Hippocrates chose it. Was it to portray the outline of certain cancers of the breast, whose…

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