Timmermann, Carsten
Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways
1. Introduction
Carsten Timmermann, Elizabeth Toon
Part I. Patients
2. Three Stories: Generations of Breast Cancer
Joanna Baines
3. Running Out of Options: Surgery, Hope and Progress in the Management of Lung Cancer, 1950s to 1990s
Carsten Timmermann
4. A Case Study in Human Experimentation: The Patient as Subject, Object and Victim
Gerald Kutcher
5. Captain Chemo and Mr Wiggly: Patient Information for Children with Cancer in the Late Twentieth Century
Emm Barnes Johnstone
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, 1920–1960
Ilana Löwy
7. Measured Responses: British Clinical Researchers and Therapies for Advanced Breast Cancer in the 1960s and 1970s
Elizabeth Toon
8. Cancer Research and Protocol Patients: From Clinical Material to Committee Advisors
Peter Keating, Alberto Cambrosio
9. Uncertain Enthusiasm: PSA Screening, Proton Therapy and Prostate Cancer
Helen Valier
10. Patients and their Problems: Situated Alliances of Patient-Centred Care and Pathway Development
Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Roland Bal, Marc Berg
11. Radicalism, Neoliberalism and Biographical Medicine: Constructions of English Patients and Patient Histories Around 1980 and Now
John Pickstone
Keywords: History, History of Science, Modern History, Social History, History of Medicine
- Editor
- Timmermann, Carsten
- Toon, Elizabeth
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
- Page amount
- 282 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137272089
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-44480-9