Hope and suffering: children, cancer, and the paradox of experimental medicine

Gretchen Krueger, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Review of this book in PubMed. This book covers the treatment of childhood cancer from 1930-1970: from a time of no cure, to a time of curing a good percentage of children. I have a copy of this book, but have not read it in its entirety. It is one of those books that I keep meaning to read, but it’s more like a text book than a book one picks up and cannot put down. Still, it is an excellent reference on the history of childhood cancer treatments. [PF, 2011]