Hope and suffering
Subtitle: children, cancer, and the paradox of experimental medicine
By: Gretchen Krueger.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780801888311
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Glioma babies," families, and cancer in children in the 1930s; title: "Cancer, the child killer": Jimmy and the redefinition of a dread disease; title: Death be not proud: children, families, and cancer in postwar America; title: "Against all odds": chemotherapy and the medical management of acute leukemia in the 1950s; title: "Who's afraid of death on the leukemia ward?": remission, relapse, and child death in the 1960s and 1970s; title: "The truly cured child": prolonged survival and the late effects of cancer.