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Author Krueger, Gretchen Marie.

Title Hope and Suffering Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine / Gretchen Krueger.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018.
©2008.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Subject United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Families.
Children -- United States.
Children.
Families -- United States.
Biomedical Research -- history -- United States.
Antineoplastic agents -- Therapeutic use -- United States.
Antineoplastic agents -- Therapeutic use.
Antineoplastic agents.
Tumors -- United States -- History.
Tumors.
Tumors -- United States -- drug therapy.
Chemotherapy.
Cancer in children -- United States -- History.
Cancer in children.
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9781421427775
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