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Krueger, Gretchen Marie.

Hope and Suffering : Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine / Gretchen Krueger. - 1 online resource (232 pages): ill. - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

"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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ISBN: 9781421427775

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Tumors.
Families.
Cancer in children.
Antineoplastic agents--Therapeutic use.
Cancer in children--History.--United States
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.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.
Electronic books.