| Description |
216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Cancer in children -- United States -- History.
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Neoplasms -- drug therapy -- United States. |
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Neoplasms -- history -- United States. |
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Antineoplastic Agents -- therapeutic use -- United States. |
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Biomedical Research -- history -- United States. |
| ISBN |
080188831X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780801888311 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLM 101317637 |
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