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Constructing Cancers - 1945-2000

Wellcome Trust
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
University of Manchester Faculty of Life Sciences

Publications

Emm Barnes
'Between Remission and Cure: Patients, Practitioners and the Transformation of Leukaemia in the Late Twentieth Century'
Chronic Illness, Volume 3 (2007), No 4, pp 253-264.
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Emm Barnes
'Cancer Coverage: The Public Face of Childhood Leukaemia in 1960s Britain'
Endeavour, Volume 32 (2008), No 1, pp 10-15.
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Emm Barnes
'Captain Chemo and Mr Wiggly: Patient Information for Children with Cancer in the Late Twentieth Century'
Social History of Medicine, Volume 19 (2006), No 3, pp 501-519.
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Emm Barnes
'Caring and Curing: Paediatric Cancer Services since 1960'
European Journal of Cancer Care, Volume 14 (2005), No 4, pp 373-380.
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John Pickstone
'Contested Cumulations: Configurations of Cancer Treatments through the Twentieth Century'
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 81 (2007), No 1, pp 164-196.
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Carsten Timmermann
'As Depressing as it was Predictable? Lung Cancer, Clinical Trials, and the Medical Research Council in Postwar Britain'
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 81 (2007), No 1, pp 312-334.
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Elizabeth Toon
'"Cancer as the General Population Knows it": Knowledge, Fear, and Lay Education in 1950s Britain'
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 81 (2007), No 1, pp 116-138.
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Elizabeth Toon
'Does Bigger Mean Better? British Perspectives on American Cancer Treatment and Research, 1948'
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Volume 25 (2007), No 36, pp 5831-5834.
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Helen Valier and Carsten Timmermann
'Clinical Trials and the Reorganization of Medical Research in post-Second World War Britain'
Medical History, Volume 52 (2008), No 4, pp 493-510.
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More articles are in press and in preparation, as well as monographs by Emm Barnes on childhood cancer, Carsten Timmermann on lung cancer, and Elizabeth Toon on breast cancer in Britain (all to be published by Palgrave in the Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History series). Further conference volumes are also under way.

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