Ressource pédagogique : Institut National du Cancer aux Etats-Unis et soutien fédéral au début du XXe siècle [VO] / David Cantor

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L'Institut National du Cancer aux Etats-Unis et le soutien fédéral au début du XXe siècle - The National Cancer Institute and the Problems of Federal Sopport for Cancer in the Early Twentieth Century United States [VO, en anglais] / David Cantor. Dans "Histoire du cancer (1750-1950)", colloque international organisé par le laboratoire FRAMESPA (université Toulouse II-Le Mirail), l'Institut Claudius Regaud et le Centre d'Études d'Histoire de la Médecine. Toulouse : Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail, Institut Claudius Regaud, 20-22 janvier 2011. Thématique 3 : Institutionnalisation de la lutte contre le cancer (1914-1950), 22 janvier 2011. On Sunday 8 August 1937 the Washington Post announced the creation of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with the headline « ‘Conquer Cancer’ Adopted as Battle Cry of the Public Health Service. » Most of the funds of the new Federally-financed Institute initially went to purchase radium for the routine treatment of poor patients. But, the organization had ambitions beyond care for the poor. It also aimed to transform public and medical attitudes, behaviors and knowledge about cancer. To this end it started major programs of public education, and sought to encourage the development of state and local cancer control programs, specialist training programs for cancer practitioners, and research into the cause, cure and control of this group of diseases. Many of these initiatives raised old concerns about the appropriate role of the Federal government in health care and research. This paper explores how anxieties about Federal involvement in cancer shaped the work of the new institute.

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• Histoire, géographie, biographies (Médecine) (610.9)
• Cancer (616.994)

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