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Author:
Krueger, Gretchen Marie.
Title:
Hope and suffering : children, cancer, and the paradox of experimental medicine / Gretchen Krueger.
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Cancer in children--United States--History.
Neoplasms--drug therapy--United States.
Neoplasms--history--United States.
Antineoplastic Agents--therapeutic use--United States.
Biomedical Research--history--United States.
Child--United States.
Family--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"Glioma babies," families, and cancer in children in the 1930s -- "Cancer, the child killer": Jimmy and the redefinition of a dread disease -- Death be not proud: children, families, and cancer in postwar America -- "Against all odds": chemotherapy and the medical management of acute leukemia in the 1950s -- "Who's afraid of death on the leukemia ward?": remission, relapse, and child death in the 1960s and 1970s -- "The truly cured child": prolonged survival and the late effects of cancer.
ISBN:
080188831X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801888311 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2007040655
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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