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Author Krueger, Gretchen Marie.

Title Hope and Suffering : Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine / Gretchen Krueger
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cancer in children -- United States -- History
Families.
Nuclear families.
Children.
Neoplasms -- history
Neoplasms -- drug therapy
History, 20th Century
Family
Child
Biomedical Research -- history
Antineoplastic Agents -- therapeutic use
Nuclear Family
children (people by age group)
Nuclear families
Families
Children
Cancer in children
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007040655
ISBN 9781421427775
142142777X
1421429187
9781421429182