Hope and Suffering : Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine / Gretchen Krueger.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781421427775
- Tumors
- Families
- Cancer in children
- Antineoplastic agents -- Therapeutic use
- 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
- United States
"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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