Henry Kaplan and the story of Hodgkin's disease
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Charlotte Jacobs
- ناشر : Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
- شابک / ISBN : 9780804768665
Description
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 -- 16 Saul Rosenberg: A Promising Young Oncologist -- 17 The L-1 Protocol: Christine Pendleton and Douglas Eads -- 18 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 Proteges -- 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 Spleen -- 37 Kaplan's Moby Dick -- 38 The Elusive Human Tumor Virus -- 39 The Quiet Conviction -- 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.
In the 1950s, ninety-five percent of patients with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of lymph tissue which afflicts young adults, died. Today most are cured, due mainly to the efforts of Dr. Henry Kaplan. Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease explores the life of this multifaceted, internationally known radiation oncologist, called a "saint" by some, a "malignant son of a bitch" by others. Kaplan's passion to cure cancer dominated his life and helped him weather the controversy that marked each of his innovations, but it extracted a high price, leaving casualties along the way. Most never knew of his family struggles, his ill-fated love affair with Stanford University, or the humanitarian efforts that imperiled him. Read less
