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Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat diseases but they also treat people, and this precondition of their professional existence sometimes pulls them in two directions at once.

June Goodfield

No transformation in men's attitude to Nature — in their "common sense" — has been more profound than the change in perspective brought about by the discovery of the past. Rather than take this discovery for granted, it is almost preferable to exaggerate its significance.

June Goodfield

June Goodfield

June Goodfield

Born: June 1, 1927

Died: February 13, 2025 (aged 97)

Bio: June Goodfield was a British historian, scientist, and writer of both fiction and non-fiction.

Known for:

The Fabric of the Heavens (1961)
Quest for the killers (1985)
A chance to live (1991)
Rotten at the Core (2001)

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