David Cantor, Ph.D.,
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. His scholarly work focuses
on twentieth-century history of medicine,
most recently the history of cancer. He
is series
editor (edited collections) of Studies
for the Society of the Social History of
Medicine
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 (PDF - 184KB), Genomics in Perspective 2006 (PDF - 216KB), and Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century 2006 (PDF - 268KB).
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books
(Co-editor) Meat, Medicine, and Human Health in the Twentieth Century (co-edited with Christian Bonah and Matthias Dörries), London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010.
(Editor) Cancer in the Twentieth Century, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
(Editor) Reinventing Hippocrates, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002
Articles
“Confused Messages: Meat, Civilization, and Cancer Education in the Early Twentieth Century,” in David Cantor, Christian Bonah and Matthias Dörries (eds.) Meat, Medicine, and Human Health in the Twentieth Century, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010, pp.111-126.
(with Christian Bonah), “Meat, Medicine, and Human Health in the Twentieth Century,” in David Cantor, Christian Bonah and Matthias Dörries (eds.) Meat, Medicine, and Human Health in the Twentieth Century, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010, pp. 1-31.
“Choosing to Live: Cancer Education, Movies, and the Conversion Narrative in America, 1921-1960,”Literature and Medicine 28 (2) Fall 2009, pp. 278–332.
“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. (PDF - 432KB)
“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
