Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Three Stories: Generations of Breast Cancer

Chapter 3 Running Out of Options: Surgery, Hope and Progress in the Management of Lung Cancer, 1950s to 1990s

Chapter 4 A Case Study in Human Experimentation: The Patient as Subject, Object and Victim

Chapter 5 Captain Chemo and Mr Wiggly: Patient Information for Children with Cancer in the Late Twentieth Century

Chapter 6 Knife, Rays and Women: Controversies about the Uses of Surgery versus Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Female Cancers in France and in the US, 1920–1960

Chapter 8 Cancer Research and Protocol Patients: From Clinical Material to Committee Advisors

Chapter 9 Uncertain Enthusiasm: PSA Screening, Proton Therapy and Prostate Cancer

Chapter 10 Patients and their Problems: Situated Alliances of Patient-Centred Care and Pathway Development

Chapter 11 Radicalism, Neoliberalism and Biographical Medicine: Constructions of English Patients and Patient Histories Around 1980 and Now