Henry Kaplan and the story of Hodgkin's disease [[electronic resource] /] / Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

• Autore: Jacobs Charlotte
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (458 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.196/994460092; B
• Soggetto topico: Radiologists - United States; Oncologists - United States; Hodgkin's disease - Radiotherapy - United States - History; Cancer - Treatment - United States - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Morbid Appearances; 2. Arrogant Ancestors; 3. Diagnosing Hodgkin's Disease; 4. Growing Up Brilliant; 5. Roentgen's Rays; 6. A Spartan Existence; 7. The Courtship of Leah Lebeson; 8. Headway with Hodgkin's Disease; 9. The Fledgling Investigator; 10. The Unlikely Aftermath of Mustard Gas; 11. The Stanford Wooing; 12. The Outsider; 13. Vera Peters: Daring to Cure Hodgkin's Disease; 14. The Cancer-Killing Cannon; 15. Moving to the Farm; Photograph Gallery 1; 16. Saul Rosenberg: A Promising Young Oncologist ; 17. The L-1 Protocol: Christine Pendleton and Douglas Eads18. The L-2 Protocol: Petra Ekstrand and Joey Radicchi; 19. International Cooperation; 20. A Famous Father; 21. The Single-Minded Focus of Vince DeVita; 22. A Walking Textbook of Radiation Morbidity; 23. Living Autopsies; 24. Protégés; 25. Intellectual Playmates; 26. Peace Now!; 27. Mary Lasker's Moon Shot for Cancer; 28. A Cancer-Causing Virus; 29. The Ann Arbor Conference; 30. Bookends; 31. The Cancer Center Debacle; 32. Deadly Complications; 33. High-Dose DeVita; 34. The S-5 Protocol: Chris Jenkins; 35. Inconsolable ; 36. Without a Spleen37. Kaplan's Moby Dick; 38. The Elusive Human Tumor Virus; 39. The Quiet Conviction; Photograph Gallery 2; 40. The Boy in the Bubble; 41. The C-1 Protocol: Wendy Podwalny; 42. The Quest for the Magic Bullet; 43. The Death of a Difficult Woman; 44. Felled; 45. Dying Adagio; Epilogue; Source Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease is the first account of a remarkable man who changed the face of cancer therapy and the history of a once fatal, now curable, cancer.
• Titolo autorizzato: Henry Kaplan and the story of Hodgkin's disease
• ISBN: 0-8047-7448-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465252703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II