Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways [electronic resource] : Historical and Sociological Perspectives /
Timmermann, C.editor.
Toon, E.editor.
Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and obstacles overcome, but of historical contingencies, cultural differences, hope, and often disappointed expectations.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: Patients; 2 Three Stories: Generations of Breast Cancer; 3 Running Out of Options: Surgery, Hope and Progress in the Management of Lung Cancer, 1950s to 1990s; 4 A Case Study in Human Experimentation: The Patient as Subject, Object and Victim; 5 Captain Chemo and Mr Wiggly: Patient Information for Children with Cancer in the Late Twentieth Century; Part II: Pathways
6 Knife, Rays and Women: Controversies about the Uses of Surgery versus Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Female Cancers in France and in the US, 1920-19607 Measured Responses: British Clinical Researchers and Therapies for Advanced Breast Cancer in the 1960s and 1970s; 8 Cancer Research and Protocol Patients: From Clinical Material to Committee Advisors; 9 Uncertain Enthusiasm: PSA Screening, Proton Therapy and Prostate Cancer; 10 Patients and their Problems: Situated Alliances of Patient-Centred Care and Pathway Development
11 Radicalism, Neoliberalism and Biographical Medicine: Constructions of English Patients and Patient Histories Around 1980 and NowIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and obstacles overcome, but of historical contingencies, cultural differences, hope, and often disappointed expectations.
History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Medicine-History.
History of Science.
Modern History.
Social History.
History of Medicine.