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

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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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2008
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