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. Protgs; 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.
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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.
Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease.
9780804768665
Kaplan, Henry S.,1918-1984.
Kaplan, Henry S.,1918-1984.
Cancer-- Treatment-- United States-- History.
Hodgkin's disease-- Radiotherapy-- United States-- History.