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September 2007, Vol 97, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1563-1571
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.086058

PUBLIC HEALTH THEN AND NOW

Redefining Cancer during the Interwar Period: British Medical Officers of Health, State Policy, Managerialism, and Public Health

Rosa M. Medina Domenech, MD, PhD and Claudia Castañeda, PhD

Rosa M. Medina Doménech is with the Department of History of Science, School of Medicine, University of Granada, Spain. Claudia Castañeda is with Women’s and Gender Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Rosa M. Medina-Domenech, Department of History of Science, Fac. Medicina, Universidad de Granada, Avda. Madrid s/n 18012, Granada, Spain (e-mail: rosam{at}ugr.es).

The implementation of radiation technologies within the British hospital system was a significant element in the establishment of the managerial organization of medicine in the interwar period.

One aspect of this implementation process was that, in order to install cancer patients within the "radiotherapy factory," British medical officers of health adapted their organizational cultures from being environmentalists to being administrators of medical services.

One of the consequences of this change was the accomplishment of a much more reductive approach to cancer compared with a more holistic approach to the disease.






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