Author:
Jacobs, Charlotte.
Imprint:Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
Descriptionx, 444 p. : ill., ; 24 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
