Constructing Cancers - 1945-2000

The Project

Cancer is in many ways paradigmatic of 20th-century medicine. This historical research project, funded by the Wellcome Trust and hosted at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester explores the development of cancer research and therapy in Britain and the meanings of cancer for the history of modern biomedicine.

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Publications

Conferences

Sites and Styles: Exploring the Comparative History of Cancer
(Manchester, 22-24 March 2007)

Patients and Pathways: Cancer Therapies in Historical and Sociological Perspective
(Manchester, 6-8 October 2005)

Cancer in the Twentieth Century
(with NCI and NLM, Bethesda, 15-17 November 2004)

Contact

Dr Carsten Timmermann
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
University of Manchester
Simon Building
Brunswick Street
Manchester M13 9PL
Phone +44-(0)161-275 5850
Fax +44-(0)161-275 5699
Or send us Email

Team

• Professor John Pickstone
• Dr Emm Barnes
• Dr Carsten Timmermann
• Dr Elizabeth Toon
  
• Dr Helen Valier
  (now at the University of Houston)