@ARTICLE{Szpak_Ewelina_Not_2021, author={Szpak, Ewelina}, volume={tom 51}, pages={453-479}, journal={Historyka Studia Metodologiczne}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział PAN w Krakowie}, publisher={Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego}, abstract={The aim of this article is to examine the current state of research on cancer in the field of the social history of health and illness (social history of medicine). The scope of analysis includes both Polish and foreign (English‑language) historical scientific journals and the most important monographic studies of the last three or four decades. The starting point for the following paper is the question of the origins of interest in cancer as a subject of historical research. The author indicates the main directions and dominant perspectives in the historical discourse of cancer, and through such a perspective, simultaneously tries to see to what extent research approaches on cancer history differ or converge in the approaches of different countries. The last aspect of the history of cancer, briefly outlined, touches upon the extent to which historical, anthropological and sociological as well as medical (history of medicine) research are intertwined and mutually inspiring or complementary.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Not just biopolitics. 'Cancer' historiography in the study of the social history of medicine}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/121549/PDF-MASTER/2021-HSRK-25-Szpak.pdf}, doi={10.24425/hsm.2021.138385}, keywords={social history of medicine, cancer, cancer policy, biopolitics}, }