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Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Dr Elizabeth Toon

Contact details

Research Associate (BA, MA, PhD)

Simon Building
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL

Tel: +44 (0)161 275 0561
Email: Elizabeth.Toon@manchester.ac.uk

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Research Interests

Specific recent research includes: breast cancer treatment in 20th-century Britain, women's cancer screening in the UK

More generally, the history of medicine, public health, and health care in the UK, US, and Canada; expert-lay relationships around medical knowledge; gender and biomedicine.

Teaching

I have taught many courses in the history and social studies of medicine, and in Fall 2005, Dr Aya Homei and I are teaching Race, Gender and Medicine.