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Hope and suffering

children, cancer, and the paradox of experimental medicine

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children, cancer, and the paradox of experimental medicine

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English
Pages
216

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Hope and suffering: children, cancer, and the paradox of experimental medicine
2008, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Table of Contents

"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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Baltimore

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.196/994
Library of Congress
RC281.C4 K78 2008, RC281.C4K78

The Physical Object

Pagination
216 p. :
Number of pages
216

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17026492M
Internet Archive
hopesufferingchi0000krue
ISBN 10
080188831X
ISBN 13
9780801888311
LCCN
2007040655
OCLC/WorldCat
173659665
Library Thing
6528711
Goodreads
6061692

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