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Subject: Conference: Patients & Pathways - Cancer Therapies in Historical and Sociological Perspective, Manchester 6-8 Oct Patients & Pathways: Cancer Therapies in Historical and Sociological Perspective - Workshop - Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine University of Manchester (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 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 --- 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 [log in to unmask] +44-(0)161-275 7950 The conference is funded by the Wellcome Trust as part of the Programme Grant Constructing Cancers, 1945-2000 www.cancer-history.org Places are very limited - please contact the organisers.