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A Socio-Cultural History of Cancer in Poland after 1945. Institutions. Places, People.

2018/29/B/HS3/01243

Keywords:

cancer social history history of health and disease history of medicine

Descriptors:

  • HS3_2: Social history
  • HS3_5: Cultural history (incl. historical memory, history of material culture, historical cultural studies, cultural diversity)
  • HS3_11: Ethnography and cultural anthropology (incl. descriptions of traditional cultures, anthropology of magic, worship and religion, cultural change and global processes, anthropology of socio-cultural, ethnic and identity phenomena)

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Ewelina Szpak 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: OPUS 15 - announced on 2018-03-15

Amount awarded: 201 990 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2019-01-28

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2023-01-27

Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project completed

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (4)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (3)
  1. 'A social taboo had to be broken.' The areas of tabooization of cancer in the Polish People's Republic
    Authors:
    Ewelina Szpak
    Academic press:
    Social History of Medicine , Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Submitted
  2. Instytucjonalizacja walki z rakiem. Między nauką a biopolityką
    Authors:
    Ewelina Szpak
    Academic press:
    Polska 1944/45-1989. Studia i materiały (rok: 2023, tom: 21, strony: 149-175), Wydawca: IH PAN
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.12775/Polska.2023.06 - link to the publication
  3. Nie tylko biopolityka. Historiografia "nowotworowa" w badaniach społecznej historii medycyny
    Authors:
    Ewelina Szpak
    Academic press:
    "Historyka. Studia metodologiczne" (rok: 2021, tom: 51, strony: 453–479), Wydawca: PAN
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.24425/hsm.2021.138385 - link to the publication
  4. Disease Prevention in a Communist State and the Second Epidemiological Transition. The Case of Postwar Poland
    Authors:
    Ewelina Szpak, Marcin Stasiak
    Academic press:
    European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health (rok: 2024, tom: 81, 1, strony: 109-135), Wydawca: Brill
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1163/26667711-bja10037 - link to the publication
  1. nie dotyczy
    Authors:
    Ewelina Szpak
    Book:
    Prawie niewidzialni. Rak, choroby nowotworowe i pacjenci onkologiczni w Polsce drugiej połowy XX wieku (rok: 2025, ), Wydawca: Instytut Historii PAN
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  2. The Intricacies of Communist Biopolitics: Control of Disease and Epidemics in the Polish Countryside after 1945
    Authors:
    Ewelina Szpak
    Book:
    Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century: Fearing the Nation, edited by Joachim von Puttkamer, Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Immo Rebitsche (rok: 2022, tom: 1, strony: 175-194), Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Published
  3. Ciemna strona modernizacji? "Polityka nowotworowa" w PRL
    Authors:
    Ewelina Szpak
    Book:
    Modernizacja bez suwerenności. Przemiany gospodarcze i społeczne w Polsce Ludowej, red. P. Grata (rok: 2021, tom: 1, strony: 366-383), Wydawca: Uniwersytet Rzeszowski
    Status:
    Published