Making Cancer History Disease and Discovery at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Name: Making Cancer History Disease and Discovery at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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ISBN: 9780801890567

ISBN-10: 080189056X

ISBN-13: 9780801890567

Edition: 2008

Authors: James S. Olson

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The history of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center vividly reveals how cancer treatment in America -- and our attitudes toward the disease -- have changed since the middle of the twentieth century. One of the preeminent cancer centers in the world, M. D. Anderson is also one of the first medical institutions devoted exclusively to caring for people with cancer and researching treatments and cures for the disease. Historian James S. Olson's narrative relates the story of the center's founding and of the surgeons, radiologists, radiotherapists, nurses, medical oncologists, scientists, administrators, and patients who built M. D. Anderson into the world-class institution it is today. Olson brings…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 5/18/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



R. Lee Clark, History, and the Dread Disease



Present at the Creation



Designing a Dream, 1946-1950



The Pink Palace, 1950-1955



Changing Paradigms, 1956-1963



M.D. Anderson and the Rise of Medical Oncology, 1964-1969



The Summit, 1970-1971



Waging War and Fading Away, 1971-1977



Charles A. LeMaistre and the Consolidation of Excellence, 1978-1983



Chasing the Devil, 1984-1988



Victory, Defeat, and an Elusive Enemy, 1988-1996



John Mendelsohn and the New Frontiers in Oncology, 1996-2000



New Offensives, 2001-2007



Tipping History?


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index


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