Making cancer history
Subtitle: disease and discovery at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
By: James S. Olson.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780801890567
Subjects: University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center -- History; University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Oncology -- Texas -- Houston -- History; Academic medical centers -- Texas -- Houston -- History; Cancer Care Facilities -- history; Medical Oncology -- history; Neoplasms -- history; Neoplasms -- therapy
Description: The history of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center vividly reveals how cancer treatment in America and our attitudes toward the disease has changed since the middle of the twentieth century. One of the preeminent cancer centers in the world, M. D. Anderson is also one of the first medical institutions devoted exclusively to caring for people with cancer and researching treatments and cures for the disease. Historian James S. Olson?s narrative relates the story of the center?s founding and of the surgeons, radiologists, radiotherapists, nurses, medical oncologists, scientists, administrators, and patients who built M. D. Anderson into the world-class institution it is today. Through interviews with M. D. Anderson?s leaders and patients, Olson brings to life the struggle to understand and treat cancer in America. A cancer survivor who has himself been treated at the center, Olson imbues this history with humor, passion, and humanity.--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: R. Lee Clark, history, and the dread disease; title: Present at the creation; title: Designing a dream, 1946-1950; title: The Pink Palace, 1950-1955; title: Changing paradigms, 1956-1963; title: M.D. Anderson and the rise of medical oncology, 1964-1969; title: The summit, 1970-1971; title: Waging war and fading away, 1971-1977; title: Charles A. Lemaistre and the consolidation of excellence, 1978-1983; title: Chasing the devil, 1984-1988; title: Victory, defeat, and an elusive enemy, 1988-1996; title: John Mendelsohn and the new frontiers in oncology, 1996-2000; title: New offensives, 2001-2007; title: Tipping history?