Krueger, Gretchen Marie. <br/><br/>
Hope and Suffering  Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine / 
Gretchen Krueger. 
 - 1 online resource (216 p.) :   ill. ; 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>"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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421427775 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History, 20th Century--United States.<br/>Family--United States.<br/>Child--United States.<br/>Biomedical Research--history--United States.<br/>Antineoplastic Agents--therapeutic use--United States.<br/>Neoplasms--history--United States.<br/>Neoplasms--drug therapy--United States.<br/>Cancer in children--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC281.C4  / K78 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.196/994