Hope and Suffering : Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine /
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
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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.