Patients & Pathways

Thursday, Oct 6

18:00-20:00 Reception: CHSTM Seminar Room

Friday, Oct 7

9:00-9:30
Introduction

John Pickstone (University of Manchester)
History of and for Patients

9:30-11:45
[with coffee break at 10:30]
Negotiating Life and Death Decisions

Keith Wailoo (Rutgers University)
The Truth about Cancer: Psychiatry, surgery, and the cultural politics of the honest diagnosis in American medicine

Isabelle Baszanger (CERMES, Paris)
Hope, Silence, and Denial at the Threshold of Death

Gretchen Krueger (Johns Hopkins University)
Private Decisions and Public Debate: 'Glioma babies' and the medical management of retinoblastoma in the twentieth century

Jason Szabo (Harvard University)
An Exercise in (allaying) Futility: Cancer care and the spectre of hopelessness

11:45-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-13:15
Patient Stories: On what it means to be a cancer patient

Barron Lerner (Columbia University)
The Man Who Saved his Own Life: Revisiting the Story of Morris Abram's leukemia (Barron Lerner will unfortunately not be able to attend, but we will have a commentary on his paper)

Emm Barnes (University of Manchester)
Empirical Quests: Networks of recruitment, 1961-1962. Snapshots of developing structures

Joanna Baines (University of Manchester)
Survivorship: or when a cancer patient is not a cancer patient

13:15-14:30 Lunch (delivered to CHSTM Library)

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)
Cancer Education in Britain 1900-1948

Kate Field (DIPEx Research, Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford)
DIPEx: A website of patient experiences and a resource for historians

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

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

20:00 Dinner at Moso Moso

Saturday, Oct 8

9:00-10:30
Treatments and Modalities

Ilana Löwy (CERMES, 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

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

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

12:30-14:00 Lunch at KroBar

14:00-15:30
Conclusions

Mike Bury (University of London)
Commentary

General Discussion