David Cantor is Deputy Director and Senior Research Historian in the Office of NIH History, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, where he also works as a historian for the National Library of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute. His scholarly work focuses on twentieth-century history of medicine, most recently the history of cancer. He is the editor of Reinventing Hippocrates (Ashgate, 2002) and Cancer in the Twentieth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), and series editor (edited collections) of Studies for the Society of the Social History of Medicine. Medicine, Society and Culture published by Pickering and Chatto. In 2002 he established the National Library of Medicine’s Online Syllabus Archive, the world’s largest collection of syllabi in the history of medicine. He has also organized workshops and lecture series including, Cancer in the Twentieth Century (2004), Genomics in Perspective (2006), and Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century (2006).

Recent Publications:

• "Radium and the Origins of the National Cancer Institute," in Caroline Hannaway (ed.), Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2008, pp. 95-146.
  
  
• "Cancer Control and Prevention in the Twentieth Century," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81, (1) Spring 2007, pp. 1-38.

• "Uncertain Enthusiasm: The American Cancer Society, Public Education, and the Problems of the Movie, 1921-1960," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81, (1) Spring 2007, pp. 39-69.

• "A Word from Your Sponsor?" Times Higher Education Supplement, No. 1782, 23rd February 2007, pp.16-17.

• "The Politics of Commissioned Histories (Revisited)," in Ronald E. Doel and Thomas Söderqvist (eds.),
  The Historiography of Recent Science, Medicine, and Technology. Writing Recent Science, London and New York: Routledge, 2006, pp.45-66.

• "The Frustrations of Families: Henry Lynch, Heredity, and Cancer Control, 1962-1975," Medical History, 50, (3), July 2006, pp. 279-302.

• "Cancer, Quackery and the Vernacular Meanings of Hope in 1950s America," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 61, (3) July 2006, pp.324-368.

• "Between Galen, Geddes and the Gael: Arthur Brock, Modernity and Medical Humanism in Early-Twentieth-Century Scotland," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 60, (1) January 2005, pp.1-41.

• Essay review of Owsei Temkin, "On Second Thought" And Other Essays in the History of Medicine and Science,
  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 25, (2), April 2004, pp.157-164.

• "Cancer," in Dominique Lecourt, François Delaporte, Patrice Pinell, Christiane Sinding, (eds.), Dictionnaire de la Pensée Médicale, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004, pp.195-201.

• "Representing 'The Public': Medicine, Charity and Emotion in Twentieth-Century Britain," in Steve Sturdy (ed.), Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000, London and New York: Routledge, 2002, pp.145-168.

• "The Uses and Meanings of Hippocrates," in David Cantor (ed.), Reinventing Hippocrates, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002, pp.1-18.

• "The NAME and the WORD: Neo-Hippocratism and Language in Interwar Britain," in David Cantor (ed.), Reinventing Hippocrates, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002, pp.280-301.

Contact Details:
David Cantor, Ph.D. | Office of NIH History
Bldg 45, Room 3AN38, MSC 6330
National Institutes of Health | Bethesda, MD 20892-6330 U.S.A.

Phone:  301-402-8915 (Direct) | 301-496-6610 (Office)
Fax:      301-402-1434
Email:   cantord@mail.nih.gov