Hope and Suffering Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine / Gretchen Krueger.
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TextPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) : illISBN: 9781421427775Subject(s): 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 -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 362.196/994 LOC classification: RC281.C4 | K78 2008Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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