Patients & Pathways: Cancer Therapies in Historical and Sociological
Perspective
- Workshop -
Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine
University of Manchester (http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm)
6-8 October 2005
Provisional Programme
Thursday, 6 October
Reception (CHSTM Seminar Room, Simon Building, Second Floor, Room 2.57)
Friday, 7 October
9:00-9:30 - Introduction
John Pickstone
University of Manchester
History of and for Patients
9:30-10:30 - Negotiating Life and Death Decisions (part 1)
Keith Wailoo
Rutgers University
The Truth about Cancer: Psychiatry, surgery, and the cultural politics
of the honest diagnosis in American medicine
Gretchen Krueger
Johns Hopkins University
Private Decisions and Public Debate: ‘Glioma babies’ and the medical
management of retinoblastoma in the twentieth century
Coffee
10:45-11:45 - Negotiating Life and Death Decisions (part 2)
Isabelle Baszanger
INSERM, Paris
Hope, Silence, and Denial at the Threshold of Death
Jason Szabo
Harvard University
An Exercise in (Allaying) Futility: Cancer care and the spectre of
hopelessness
Coffee
12:00-13:15 - Patient Stories: On what it means to be a cancer patient
Emm Barnes
University of Manchester
Empirical Quests: Networks of recruitment, 1961-1962. Snapshots of
developing structures
Barron Lerner
Columbia University
The Man Who Saved his Own Life: Revisiting the Story of Morris Abram’s
leukemia (comments, 15 minutes)
Joanna Baines
University of Manchester
Survivorship (title to be confirmed)
Lunch
14:30-16:00 Publics and Patienthood
David Cantor
National Library of Medicine and National Cancer Institute, Bethesda
Cancer, Quackery and Vernacular Meanings of Hope in 1950s America
Ornella Moscucci
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Fast track to treatment? Cancer education in Britain, circa 1900-1948
Kate Field
DIPEx Research, Dept of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford
DIPEx: A website of patient experiences and a resource for historians
Coffee
16:30-18:00 Clinical Trials and Patients as Subjects
Gerald Kutcher
Binghampton University
A Case of Human Experimentation: The patient as subject, object and martyr
Helen Valier
University of Manchester
Veterans and the US ‘War on Cancer’
Peter Keating
& Alberto Cambrosio
University of Quebec at Montreal
& McGill University
Patients and Protocols
Dinner
Location to be announced
Saturday, 8 October
9:00-10:30 Treatments and Modalities
Ilana Löwy
INSERM, Paris
Knife, rays and women: Controversies on the uses of surgery versus
radiotherapy in the treatment of female cancers in France and in the US,
1910-1960
Elizabeth Toon
University of Manchester
Measured Responses: British clinical researchers and the management of
advanced breast cancer, 1960s-1970s
Carsten Timmermann
University of Manchester
What’s Wrong With Routine? Therapeutic enthusiasm and the management of
lung cancer in Britain
Coffee
11:00-12:30 Services and Trajectories
Charles Hayter
University of Toronto
The Inaccessible Highway: The failure of centralized cancer care in
Ontario, 1930-1990
Patrick Castel
GRESAC, Lyon
Peer Relationships as a Structuring Pattern for the Therapeutic
Relationship in France
Teun Zuiderent-Jerak
& Roland Bal
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Patients and their Problems: Dutch alliances of patient-centred care and
pathway development
Lunch
14:00-15:30 Conclusion
Mike Bury
Sociology, University of London
Commentary
General Discussion
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Location
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)
Simon Building, Second Floor, Room 2.57 (CHSTM Seminar Room)
University of Manchester
Brunswick Street
Manchester M13 9PL
Contact
Carsten Timmermann
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+44-(0)161-275 7950
The conference is funded by the Wellcome Trust
as part of the Programme Grant Constructing Cancers, 1945-2000
http://www.cancer-history.org
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Places are limited - please contact the organisers.
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Carsten Timmermann, PhD
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
The University of Manchester, Simon Building, Room 2.36
Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Phone +44-(0)161-275 7950
Fax +44-(0)161-275 5699
Web http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm
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