Description
Book SynopsisThis engaging study will be of interest to historians, medical practitioners and researchers, and people whose lives have been altered by cancer.
Trade ReviewKrueger has written an important book. -- Barron Lerner Lancet 2008 Hope and Suffering is an apt title for this dense, encyclopedic, and riveting book. It includes narratives from patients and their family members that detail the hope, suffering, and despair of the first two decades of cancer therapy, followed by the optimism and successes of the present...Author Gretchen Krueger recounts these stories in considerable detail and references them exquisitely. New England Journal of Medicine 2009 It would be of value in any medical humanities course. -- Emm Barnes Medical History 2010
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. "Glioma Babies," Families, and Cancer in Children in the 1930s
2. "Cancer, The Child Killer": Jimmy and the Redefinition of a Dread Disease
3. Death Be Not Proud: Children, Families, and Cancer in Postwar America
4. "Against All Odds": Chemotherapy and the Medical Management of Acute Leukemia in the 1950s
5. "Who's Afraid of Death on the Leukemia Ward?": Remission, Relapse, and Child Death in the 1960s and 1970s
6. "The Truly Cured Child": Prolonged Survival and the Late Effects of Cancer
Conclusion
Notes
Index
