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Cancer Data For Good

A History of the Victorian Cancer Registry

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Authors:
  1. Thomas Kehoe

    1. Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Sheds new light on an important part of the history of science and medical history
  • Uses a rich collection of previously unexamined archival material
  • Illustrates broader political, social, and cultural implications of registry-driven science

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Cancer Registration: A Neglected History

    • Thomas Kehoe
    Pages 1-12

  3. A Thirst for Data: Establishing the Victorian Cancer Registry, 1936–1945

    • Thomas Kehoe
    Pages 13-36

  4. Post-War Recovery, Expansion, and Technological Advancement, 1945–1968

    • Thomas Kehoe
    Pages 37-61

  5. The “Gray” Years: Technological Advancement and Legislative Change, 1968–1981

    • Thomas Kehoe
    Pages 63-87

  6. New Possibilities: The VCR as a Population-Based Registry, 1981–1990

    • Thomas Kehoe
    Pages 89-111

  7. The VCR as a Tool for Population Research and Intervention, 1991–2010

    • Thomas Kehoe
    Pages 113-134

  8. Towards the Future: New Leadership and State of the Art Technology, 2011–2019

    • Thomas Kehoe
    Pages 135-149

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 151-156
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About this book

This book examines the history of the Victorian Cancer Registry (VCR) in Australia from its establishment in the late 1930s through to the present day. It sheds new light on the history of medicine and the broader social and cultural histories affected by advances in cancer control science, providing a historical account of cancer registration that is empirically grounded in new archival and oral sources. It addresses the obstacles that proponents of cancer registration faced, how governments came to support permanent registries, and the subsequent contributions of the VCR and other registries to cancer research. In charting this history, the book discusses some of the political, social, and cultural implications of registry-driven science, and the links between developments in scientific knowledge and campaigning for policy changes around cancer. 


Authors and Affiliations

  • Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

    Thomas Kehoe

About the author

Dr Thomas Kehoe is a modern historian and since 2020, has headed the Heritage Project at Cancer Council Victoria. In this role, he works with other scholars, museums, and archives to reveal the long and challenging history of cancer control in Victoria and its impact on modern health. Prior to joining the Council, he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New England and taught modern history, politics, and criminology at the University of Melbourne, the Australian Catholic University, and Swinburne University of Technology (Australia).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cancer Data For Good

  • Book Subtitle: A History of the Victorian Cancer Registry

  • Authors: Thomas Kehoe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4987-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4986-9Published: 27 October 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-4987-6Published: 26 October 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 156

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Medical Sociology, Public Health, History of Medicine

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