The changing faces of childhood cancer : clinical and cultural visions since 1940 / Emm Barnes Johnstone, Teaching and Research Fellow, Royal Hollaway, University of London, UK, Joanna Baines, Freelance Academic Copyeditor, UK.
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TextSeries: Science, technology, and medicine in modern historyPublication details: Hampshire: Palgrave, c2015.Description: xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781403988010
- 1403988013
- Cancer in children -- Great Britain -- History
- Neoplasms -- history -- Great Britain
- Neoplasms -- history -- United States
- Adolescent -- Great Britain
- Adolescent -- United States
- Child -- Great Britain
- Child -- United States
- History, 20th Century -- Great Britain
- History, 20th Century -- United States
- History, 21st Century -- Great Britain
- History, 21st Century -- United States
- Infant -- Great Britain
- Infant -- United States
- Medical Oncology -- history -- Great Britain
- Medical Oncology -- history -- United States
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- RC281.C4.J64 2015
- QZ 11 FA1
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.
Childhood cancer, a disease apart -- The rise of childhood leukaemia -- Working with larger numbers : the development of large-scale clinical trials -- Cancer microbes, the tumour safari, and chemical cures -- Making the news and the need for hope -- A new breed of doctor -- Living with uncertainty : three patients on trial -- Experiences of survivorship.
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