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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.
- "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.
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 |