Timmermann, Carsten (Editor)
Toon, Elizabeth A. (Editor)
The eleven essays in this volume examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. Rather than writing cancer's history as that of inevitable progress and obstacles overcome, these scholars emphasize how contingency, politics, and institutional interests have informed approaches to research and treatment. Focusing on the interface between individual patient trajectories and the evolving routines of research, therapy and care, the contributors bring together ethnographically-inflected historical and sociological observation with technically well-informed accounts of encounters between patients and professionals. The picture that emerges is one of cancers rather than Cancer, of patients rather than 'The Patient', and of medical practices that are both experimental and routine. As cancer treatment has come to epitomize biomedicine, these essays speak to readers interested more broadly in understanding patients' experiences with large institutions, sophisticated technologies, and clinical research, and the way these experiences can shape treatment policies.
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Review Hamilton, Catriona Gilmour (2014) Review of "Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspectives". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 389-391).
Review Kampf, Antje (2014) Review of "Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspectives". Social History of Medicine (pp. 403-405).
Essay Review Clarke, Brendan (2014) Making sense of failure. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 122-125).
Chapter Timmermann, Carsten (2012) Running out of Options: Surgery, Hope and Progress in the Management of Lung Cancer, 1950s to 1990s. In: Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (p. 36).
Chapter Löwy, Ilana (2012) Knife, Rays and Women: Controversies about the Uses of Surgery versus Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Female Cancers in France and in the US, 1920--1960. In: Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (p. 103).
Chapter Valier, Helen (2012) Uncertain Enthusiasm: PSA Screening, Proton Therapy and Prostate Cancer. In: Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (p. 186).
Chapter Pickstone, John (2012) Radicalism, Neoliberalism and Biographical Medicine: Constructions of English Patients and Patient Histories around 1980 and Now. In: Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (p. 230).
Chapter Johnstone, Emm Barnes (2012) Captain Chemo and Mr Wiggly: Patient Information for Children with Cancer in the Late Twentieth Century. In: Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (p. 78).
Chapter Toon, Elizabeth (2012) Measured Responses: British Clinical Researchers and Therapies for Advanced Breast Cancer in the 1960s and 1970s. In: Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (p. 130).
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Translating Smoke Signals: West German Medicine and Tobacco Research, 1950–1970
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(2007)
Secret History of the War on Cancer
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(2006)
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Allison, James P.;
(2012)
Lloyd J. Old (1933--2011)
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(2011)
Evolution of Three Premier Cancer Institutes of India---TMC, CNCI & CIWIA---An Assessment
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(2014)
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(2013)
Catching Cancer: The Quest for Its Viral and Bacterial Causes
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(2016)
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(2009)
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(2006)
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Barnes, Emm;
(2008)
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Hardy, Susan;
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(2011)
Contested Surveillance: Risk, Safety, and Cervical Screening in Australia
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(2012)
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(2015)
Radiation, Cancer, and Mutation in the Atomic Age
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Lerner, Barron H.;
(2004)
Beyond Informed Consent: Did Cancer Patients Challenge Their Physicians in the Post-World War II Era?
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Bertolaso, Marta;
(2009)
Towards an Integrated View of the Neoplastic Phenomena in Cancer Research
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Parascandola, Mark;
(2005)
Epidemiology in Transition: Tobacco and Lung Cancer in the 1950s
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Kevles, Daniel J.;
(2008)
Howard Temin: Rebel of Evidence and Reason
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(2002)
Curing cancer? Patrick Lee's Path to the Reovirus Treatment
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