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

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Hlavní autor:	Krueger, Gretchen Marie
Médium:	Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Edice:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Témata:	Tumors. Families. Cancer in children. Antineoplastic agents > Therapeutic use. Cancer in children > United States > History. Neoplasms > drug therapy > United States. Neoplasms > history > United States. Antineoplastic Agents > therapeutic use > United States. Biomedical Research > history > United States. Child > United States. Family > United States. History, 20th Century > United States. United States. History. Electronic books.
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"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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