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Krueger, Gretchen Marie.

Hope and Suffering Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine / Gretchen Krueger. - 1 online resource (216 p.) : ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

Open Access

ISBN: 9781421427775

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
History, 20th Century--United States.
Family--United States.
Child--United States.
Biomedical Research--history--United States.
Antineoplastic Agents--therapeutic use--United States.
Neoplasms--history--United States.
Neoplasms--drug therapy--United States.
Cancer in children--History.--United States

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RC281.C4 / K78 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 362.196/994