Hope and Suffering : Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine

Hope and Suffering Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Krueger, Gretchen Marie (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2008
2008.
Materias:
History, 20th Century > United States.
Family > United States.
Child > United States.
Biomedical Research > history > United States.
Antineoplastic Agents > therapeutic use > United States.
Neoplasms > history > United States.
Neoplasms > drug therapy > United States.
Cancer in children > United States > History.
History of science
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429944106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.

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