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Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease
A “compelling—and wonderfully told” biography of the American physician who pioneered a treatment for a cancer of lymph tissue (Wall Street Journal). 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...
Subject Index of Extramural Research Administered by the National Cancer Institute
Current information about research grants and contracts supported by the National Cancer Institute. Subject listing gives contract or grant number and topic. Investigator, grant number, and contract number indexes.
Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market
Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market shows how the radiation therapy specialty in the United States (later called radiation oncology) co-evolved with its device industry throughout the twentieth-century. Academic engineers and physicians acquired financing to develop increasingly powerful radiation devices, initiated companies to manufacture the devices competitively and designed hospital and freestanding procedure units to utilize them. In the process they incorporated market strategies into medical organization and practice. This provocative inquiry concludes that public health policy needs to re-evaluate market-driven high-tech medicine and build evidence-based health care systems.
Stratégie Thérapeutique Dans la Maladie de Hodgkin
Presents proceedings of the Paris International Workshop & Symposium held on 28 to 30, June 1989.
Disappear
Over 24 months on major UK Top 100 lists #1 in Mystery-Women Sleuths Top 10 USA, Canada & Australia A vicious killer...a mind-bending mystery...a woman's search for answers On a rain-drenched night, a young husband runs to the corner shop - and never returns. Eighteen years later, his body reappears. -Reappears, wearing the same clothes, and on the same street from which he went missing. Reappears, and is the victim of a hit/run driver. He looks exactly the same now as when he vanished. His widow, Jennifer Parkes, is determined to solve this enigma once and for all. Other bodies are found, all missing eighteen years. None seem to have aged. On the trail of a vicious killer, Jennifer and homi...
Fred Terman at Stanford
Terman was widely hailed as the magnet that drew talent together into what became known as Silicon Valley."--BOOK JACKET.
