Henry Kaplan and the story of Hodgkin's disease / Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Charlotte.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kaplan, Henry S., 1918-1984.

Kaplan, Henry S.

Radiologists--United States--Biography.

Radiologists.

Oncologists--United States--Biography.

Oncologists.

Hodgkin's disease--Radiotherapy--United States--History.

Hodgkin's disease.

Cancer--Treatment--United States--History.

Cancer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (458 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804774482

080477448X

OCLC:

646788107