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oapen-20.500.12657-571712022-09-09T03:00:20Z Cancer, Research, and Educational Film at Midcentury Cantor, David national health and welfare; national cancer institute; cancer bic Book Industry Communication::Y Children's, Teenage & educational::YQ Educational material::YQN Educational: Citizenship & social education::YQNP Educational: Personal, social & health education (PSHE) In 1949 the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare (DNHW) commissioned a film, eventually called Challenge. Science Against Cancer, as part of a major effort to recruit young scientists into cancer research. Both organizations feared that poor recruitment would stifle the development of the field at a time when funding for research was growing dramatically. The fear was that there would not be enough new young scientists to meet the demand, and that the shortfall would undermine cancer research and the hopes invested in it. Challenge aimed to persuade young scientists to think of cancer research as a career. This book is the story of that forgotten film and what it tells us about mid-twentieth century American and Canadian cancer research, educational filmmaking, and health education campaigns. It explores why Canadian and American health agencies turned to film to address the problem of scientist recruitment; how filmmakers turned such recruitment concerns into something they thought would work as a film; and how information officers at the NCI and DNHW sought to shape the impact of Challenge by embedding it in a broader educational and propaganda program. It is, in short, an account of the important, but hitherto undocumented, roles of filmmakers and information officers in the promotion of post-Second World War cancer research. 2022-07-01T10:35:33Z 2022-07-01T10:35:33Z 2021 book 9781580469166 9781580465083 9781648250293 9781800103665 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57171 eng Rochester Studies in Medical History application/epub+zip application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781800103672.epub 9781800103665 (1).pdf Boydell & Brewer University of Rochester Press 10.38051/9781800103672 10.38051/9781800103672 2f51bde7-eaae-4e18-9c1c-ad757a12abea 0cdc3d7c-5c59-49ed-9dba-ad641acd8fd1 9781580469166 9781580465083 9781648250293 9781800103665 Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP) University of Rochester Press 50 320 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation open access
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In 1949 the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare (DNHW) commissioned a film, eventually called Challenge. Science Against Cancer, as part of a major effort to recruit young scientists into cancer research. Both organizations feared that poor recruitment would stifle the development of the field at a time when funding for research was growing dramatically. The fear was that there would not be enough new young scientists to meet the demand, and that the shortfall would undermine cancer research and the hopes invested in it. Challenge aimed to persuade young scientists to think of cancer research as a career. This book is the story of that forgotten film and what it tells us about mid-twentieth century American and Canadian cancer research, educational filmmaking, and health education campaigns. It explores why Canadian and American health agencies turned to film to address the problem of scientist recruitment; how filmmakers turned such recruitment concerns into something they thought would work as a film; and how information officers at the NCI and DNHW sought to shape the impact of Challenge by embedding it in a broader educational and propaganda program. It is, in short, an account of the important, but hitherto undocumented, roles of filmmakers and information officers in the promotion of post-Second World War cancer research.
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