Hope and suffering : children, cancer, and the paradox of experimental medicine / Gretchen Krueger.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2008], ©2008.

216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.