Hope and Suffering : Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine / / Gretchen Krueger.
Gretchen Krueger's poignant narrative explores how doctors, families, and the public interpreted the experience of childhood cancer from the 1930s through the 1970s. Pairing the transformation of childhood cancer from killer to curable disease with the personal experiences of young patients and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2008. ©2008. |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p. :); ill. ; |
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Table of 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.