Children with Cancer: Mainstreaming and Reintegration

Probably no two topics have generated more workshops, conferences, and lectures in medicine and education than the chron­ ically ill child and the mandate of Public Law 94-142. In spite of the numerous examinations of these topics there has never been a serious dialogue between medical professionals and educators with the child as the focus. These proceedings represent such a unique event. The paradigm of the medically exceptional child is the child with cancer, a child with a life-threaten...