Hope and suffering : children, cancer, and the paradox of experimental medicine / Gretchen Krueger.
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Krueger, Gretchen Marie. (författare)
- ISBN 978-0-8018-8831-1 (hardcover alk paper)
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
- Engelska 216 p.
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Innehållsförteckning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- "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.
Ämnesord
- Cancer in children -- United States -- History. (LCSH)
- Neoplasms -- drug therapy -- United States. (MeSH)
- Neoplasms -- history -- United States. (MeSH)
- Antineoplastic Agents -- therapeutic use -- United States. (MeSH)
- Biomedical Research -- history -- United States. (MeSH)
- Child -- United States. (MeSH)
- Family -- United States. (MeSH)
- History, 20th Century -- United States. (MeSH)
Klassifikation
- RC281.C4 (LCC)
- 2008 K-402 (NLM)
- QZ 11 AA1 (NLM)
- 362.196/994 (DDC)
- Vp (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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