| Description |
1 online resource (458 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Morbid Appearances; 2. Arrogant Ancestors; 3. Diagnosing Hodgkin's Disease; 4. Growing Up Brilliant; 5. Roentgen's Rays; 6. A Spartan Existence; 7. The Courtship of Leah Lebeson; 8. Headway with Hodgkin's Disease; 9. The Fledgling Investigator; 10. The Unlikely Aftermath of Mustard Gas; 11. The Stanford Wooing; 12. The Outsider; 13. Vera Peters: Daring to Cure Hodgkin's Disease; 14. The Cancer-Killing Cannon; 15. Moving to the Farm; Photograph Gallery 1; 16. Saul Rosenberg: A Promising Young Oncologist |
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17. The L-1 Protocol: Christine Pendleton and Douglas Eads18. The L-2 Protocol: Petra Ekstrand and Joey Radicchi; 19. International Cooperation; 20. A Famous Father; 21. The Single-Minded Focus of Vince DeVita; 22. A Walking Textbook of Radiation Morbidity; 23. Living Autopsies; 24. Protgs; 25. Intellectual Playmates; 26. Peace Now!; 27. Mary Lasker's Moon Shot for Cancer; 28. A Cancer-Causing Virus; 29. The Ann Arbor Conference; 30. Bookends; 31. The Cancer Center Debacle; 32 |
| Summary |
Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease is the first account of a remarkable man who changed the face of cancer therapy and the history of a once fatal, now curable, cancer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kaplan, Henry S., 1918-1984.
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| SUBJECT |
Kaplan, Henry S., 1918-1984 fast |
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Cancer -- Treatment -- United States -- History
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Hodgkin's disease -- Radiotherapy -- United States -- History
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Oncologists -- United States -- Biography
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Radiologists -- United States -- Biography
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Cancer -- Treatment
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Oncologists
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Radiologists
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804774482 |
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080477448X |
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