David Cantor
Biographic Data
| ID | 221427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Cantor |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Cantor |
| SIGNATURE | CANTOR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Advanced Study |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4830-7138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 275 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 58 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Non-discrimination as a rationale for refugee law
The ‘spirit’ of the Cartagena Declaration
Refugee law-making, state sovereignty and the paradox of non-independent territories
State sovereignty is widely accepted as a necessary basis for refugee lawmaking. Recent trends within refugee law scholarship have shifted the analytical focus beyond State lawmaking in international law to interrogate how refugee matters are governed at the level of national law. This article continues that trajectory by exploring whether refugee law-making takes place beyond the boundaries of State sovereignty, in the practice of non-independe…
Methodological Developments and Innovations of the National Crime Victimization Survey, 1972–2023
Over its 50 years of existence, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) has changed to address the informational needs of its users, as well as adapt to an evolving survey climate. Perhaps more than any other victim survey in the world, data quality has been an emphasis. In this article, the evolution of the methodology of the survey is described up to the point of the 2024 redesign. The first section provides an abbreviated description of…
Researching health and internal displacement
This special series on ‘health and internal displacement’ is concerned primarily with the health needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in conflict contexts. Curated by editors from the recently established Health and Internal Displacement Network (HIDN), the series brings together a selection of thirteen new research articles from among many submitted in response to an open call for papers by HIDN and the Journal of Migration and Health. T…
Interpersonal Violence Victimization Among College-Attending and Non-College-Attending Emerging Adults
It is well-established that rates of interpersonal violence (IV; physical and emotional intimate partner violence [IPV], non-consensual sexual contact [NCSC], and stalking) peak at 18–24 years of age. Most emerging-adult IV research has been conducted with college samples, making increased risk for IV in college a widely held, but perhaps unjustified, assumption. This nationally representative study ( N = 1025) assessed high school seniors on IV …
International Protection, Disasters and Climate Change
This paper starts by situating international protection as but one legal response to the situation of people outside their countries due to disasters (section 2). Instead, migration law will often be the primary framework for resolving mobility issues in this context. Nonetheless, for persons who do face a risk of harm, international protection law may potentially apply. The paper sets out guidance, for international protection purposes, on how t…
Introducing Perspectives on Displacement
Divergent dynamics
Disasters and conflicts are both widely recognised as 'drivers' of internal displacement. Yet, despite a growing body of research and policy, there has been little consideration to date of how the different features of each 'context' shape the micro-level dynamics of internal displacement. Where and why are these dynamics similar across the two contexts and how do they differ? This paper draws on general concepts from the disaster field to develo…
Before The War on Cancer
This paper explores how gangsters and cancers came to be metaphors of bodily and social disorder, beginning in a media world dominated by print, radio and film and ending in a world where television had come to displace older forms of mass communication. It is a study of the continuities and discontinuities between concerns about television and earlier forms of mass media, and how they shaped the trajectories of the two metaphors of cancer and th…
The Effects of Prompt Interventions on Web Survey Response Rate and Data Quality Measures
Previous survey research has found that prompt interventions for speeding and straightlining were effective at reducing these undesirable response behaviors in web surveys. However, the effects of prompt interventions on data quality measures are mixed, and it is unclear how prompt interventions affect key survey estimates. We conducted an experiment on prompt interventions using the National Cancer Institute’s 2019 Health Information National Tr…
Externalisation, Access to Territorial Asylum, and International Law
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Understanding the health needs of internally displaced persons
We seek to strengthen understanding of the health needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in contexts of conflict or violence. Based upon a scoping review, our paper identified limited evidence on IDP health, but nevertheless indicates that IDPs tend to experience worse health outcomes than other conflict-affected populations across a range of health issues; and this is due to the particularly vulnerable situation of IDPs relative to these o…
Contemporary Perspectives on Internal Displacement in Africa
On behalf of the editorial team at the Refugee Survey Quarterly,1 we are proud to present a Special Collection of research on the theme of internal displacement in Africa. Each of the five articles in this journal issue provides a distinct contemporary perspective on how internal displacement, and the response to it by governments, agencies, and local political and economic actors, plays out on the African continent. Moreover, to shed new light o…
Internal Displacement, Internal Migration, and Refugee Flows
How does internal displacement compare to other related forms of movement? This article draws on existing evidence to explore, specifically in countries affected by armed conflict or other serious violence, how internal displacement relates empirically to (1) internal economic migration as a more voluntary form of “internal” movement and (2) refugee flows as an external form of “forced” movement. This analysis of the available evidence suggests a…
Reconsidering African Refugee Law
Fifty years have now passed since the 1969 Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa was adopted by the Organization of African Unity (OAU). Within international refugee law, the OAU Refugee Convention (OAU Convention) is often taken to encapsulate the ‘African’ legal approach to refugees. This anniversary represents an opportune moment to review the state of ‘African’ refugee law. This article seeks to contribute to…
Radiotherapy and Thyroid Cancer in the 1970s
AffiliationsDavid Cantor is with the Office of History, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, and the School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park
Mediterranean Quarantines, 1750-1914
Fairness, Failure, and Future in the Refugee Regime
The IDP in International Law’? Developments, Debates, Prospects
Journal Article 'The IDP in International Law'? Developments, Debates, Prospects Get access David James Cantor David James Cantor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Refugee Law, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2018, Pages 191–217, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eey031 Published: 06 September 2018
Reinventing Hippocrates
Reinventing Hippocrates Edited By David Cantor Copyright Year 2001 ISBN 9781138263550 Routledge 352 Pages
Conserving health in early modern culture
The End of Refugee Law
Journal Article The End of Refugee Law? Get access David James Cantor David James Cantor *The author ([email protected]) is Director of the Refugee Law Initiative at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 9, Issue 2, July 2017, Pages 203–211, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/hux022 Published: 17 August 2017
The Emperor’s New Clothing
The “scandal” of foreign criminals whom our governments cannot send back to their own countries has become something of a tabloid obsession. Yet, while suspected or convicted of serious crimes or considered to pose a danger to society, such “undesirable and unreturnable” aliens equally often languish in an ambiguous and even dangerous state of protracted legal “limbo”, lacking a defined immigration status and attendant access to basic rights in t…
Finding Historical Records at the National Institutes of Health
This paper provides a guide to finding historical records of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the US biomedical research agency funded by the federal government, and one of the world's largest research funding bodies. Such records are important to an understanding of the development of medicine and biomedicine after the Second World War, yet they can be difficult to find in the organizational maze that is the NIH. This article provides in…
Unemployment and Crime Rates in the Post-World War II United States
Using annual time-series data for the United States, 1946-1982, two hypotheses are tested: (1) The level of the unemployment rate in any given year will have a negative partial contemporaneous effect on detrendedfluctuations (increases or decreases) in seven Index Crime rates (homicide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft) in that year. (2) Unemployment-rate fluctuationsfrom one year to the next wil…
The New Wave
Forced displacement generated by organized crime is a little-studied and poorly understood phenomenon. Based on field research carried out in 2013, this article redresses this situation by analysing the broad dynamics of an alarming new wave of forced displacement sweeping El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras -the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America -and Mexico. It focuses specifically on the role played by three of the main typ…
How Much Gets You How Much? Monetary Incentives and Response Rates in Household Surveys
This meta-analysis quantifies the dose-response relationship between monetary incentives and response rates in household surveys. It updates and augments the existing meta-analyses on incentives by analyzing the latest experimental research, focusing specifically on general-population household surveys, and includes the three major data-collection modes (mail, telephone, and in-person) under the same analytic framework. Using hierarchical regress…
Comparing measures of homicide trends
Arima models of seasonal variation in U. S. birth and death rates
This paper applies methods of seasonal ARIMA time series analysis to U. S. monthly birth and death rates for January 1950–December 1978. For model selection, the conventional Box-Jenkins (1970, 1976) diagnostic checks are used in conjunction with some suggestions of Nerlove et al. (1979). This results in final models that contain significant second-order autoregressive components, as well as seasonal moving-average components, for both series. In…
Internal Displacement, Internal Migration, and Refugee Flows
How does internal displacement compare to other related forms of movement? This article draws on existing evidence to explore, specifically in countries affected by armed conflict or other serious violence, how internal displacement relates empirically to (1) internal economic migration as a more voluntary form of “internal” movement and (2) refugee flows as an external form of “forced” movement. This analysis of the available evidence suggests a…
The Emperor’s New Clothing
The “scandal” of foreign criminals whom our governments cannot send back to their own countries has become something of a tabloid obsession. Yet, while suspected or convicted of serious crimes or considered to pose a danger to society, such “undesirable and unreturnable” aliens equally often languish in an ambiguous and even dangerous state of protracted legal “limbo”, lacking a defined immigration status and attendant access to basic rights in t…
Reframing Relationships
This article reassesses the question of whether international human rights law fixes procedural parameters for the determination of refugee status. Based on a detailed jurisprudential analysis, the study shows that Human Rights Treaty bodies of both universal and regional aspiration contribute positively to clarifying the minimum procedural standards applicable to this aspect of refugee protection. Drawing on recent groundbreaking decisions, the …
The Inter-American human rights system
A novel set of protections for refugees and asylum-seekers exists within the Inter-American human rights system, the scope of which has been developed considerably in recent years through the jurisprudence of its institutions. Whilst these advances have attracted comparatively little academic commentary, and are relatively unknown even among practitioners in the region, the present article shows that they offer an important new model for integrat…
Cancer, Quackery and the Vernacular Meanings of Hope in 1950s America
Hope was central to cancer control in twentieth-century America. Physicians placed great store in its power to persuade people to seek medical help as early as possible in the development of the disease, when it was most amenable to treatment; to maintain patients' loyalty through what could be a long, painful and uncertain course of therapy; and to encourage doubts about alternative healers. Some also argued that hope could have beneficial thera…
Divergent dynamics
Disasters and conflicts are both widely recognised as 'drivers' of internal displacement. Yet, despite a growing body of research and policy, there has been little consideration to date of how the different features of each 'context' shape the micro-level dynamics of internal displacement. Where and why are these dynamics similar across the two contexts and how do they differ? This paper draws on general concepts from the disaster field to develo…
The Effects of Prompt Interventions on Web Survey Response Rate and Data Quality Measures
Previous survey research has found that prompt interventions for speeding and straightlining were effective at reducing these undesirable response behaviors in web surveys. However, the effects of prompt interventions on data quality measures are mixed, and it is unclear how prompt interventions affect key survey estimates. We conducted an experiment on prompt interventions using the National Cancer Institute’s 2019 Health Information National Tr…
Contemporary Perspectives on Internal Displacement in Africa
On behalf of the editorial team at the Refugee Survey Quarterly,1 we are proud to present a Special Collection of research on the theme of internal displacement in Africa. Each of the five articles in this journal issue provides a distinct contemporary perspective on how internal displacement, and the response to it by governments, agencies, and local political and economic actors, plays out on the African continent. Moreover, to shed new light o…
The End of Refugee Law
Journal Article The End of Refugee Law? Get access David James Cantor David James Cantor *The author ([email protected]) is Director of the Refugee Law Initiative at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 9, Issue 2, July 2017, Pages 203–211, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/hux022 Published: 17 August 2017
Finding Historical Records at the National Institutes of Health
This paper provides a guide to finding historical records of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the US biomedical research agency funded by the federal government, and one of the world's largest research funding bodies. Such records are important to an understanding of the development of medicine and biomedicine after the Second World War, yet they can be difficult to find in the organizational maze that is the NIH. This article provides in…
Before Survivorship
This paper concerns what I call "the moment of recovery," the time when, in the 1950s, American cancer campaigns abandoned an earlier tendency to downplay post-operative recovery in their public education programs. This change was signalled by the emergence of new patients groups such as Reach to Recovery (founded 1953), and by a new interest in cancer rehabilitation among physicians, nurses, and manufacturers and sellers of equipment and clothin…
Comparing measures of homicide trends
Arima models of seasonal variation in U. S. birth and death rates
This paper applies methods of seasonal ARIMA time series analysis to U. S. monthly birth and death rates for January 1950–December 1978. For model selection, the conventional Box-Jenkins (1970, 1976) diagnostic checks are used in conjunction with some suggestions of Nerlove et al. (1979). This results in final models that contain significant second-order autoregressive components, as well as seasonal moving-average components, for both series. In…
Unemployment and Crime Rates in the Post-World War II United States
Using annual time-series data for the United States, 1946-1982, two hypotheses are tested: (1) The level of the unemployment rate in any given year will have a negative partial contemporaneous effect on detrendedfluctuations (increases or decreases) in seven Index Crime rates (homicide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft) in that year. (2) Unemployment-rate fluctuationsfrom one year to the next wil…
A Report on Phosphatidylcholine Therapy in a down Syndrome Child
Recent research has given support to the hypothesized existence of impaired cholinergic systems in young Down Syndrome individuals. In this study, a 2 1⁄2-yr.-old Down Syndrome boy was given a phosphatidylcholine supplement over a 7-mo. period. Measures of the EEG indicate a normalization during the treatment period with minor reoccurrence of abnormalities during a placebo period. The child showed a definitive increase in speech and language skil…
The Voluntary Impulse. Philanthropy in Modern Britain (Book)
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access Jacob Wolff, The Science of Cancerous Disease from Earliest Times to the Present. With a new introduction by Saul Jarcho, Canton, Mass: Science History Publications, 1989. Pp. liii + 714. $59.95. ISBN 0-88135-085-0. DAVID CANTOR DAVID CANTOR Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume …
Contracting Cancer? The Politics of Commissioned Histories
Journal Article Contracting Cancer? The Politics of Commissioned Histories Get access DAVID CANTOR DAVID CANTOR *The Institute of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University1900 E. Monument Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, U. S.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 5, Issue 1, April 1992, Pages 131–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/5.1.131 Published: 01 Apr…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access Derrick Brewerton, All About Arthritis, Past, Present, Future, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992. Pp. 317. £15.95. ISBN 0-674-01615-7. DAVID CANTOR DAVID CANTOR Institute of the History of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 3, December 1993, Page 465, https://doi.org/10.1…
Vital Signs
Henry Wellcome (review)
Reviewed by: Henry Wellcome David Cantor Robert Rhodes James. Henry Wellcome. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994. xix + 422 pp. Ill. £25.00. Henry Wellcome (1853–1936) was born in a log cabin in Almond, Wisconsin. In 1874 he graduated from Philadelphia’s College of Pharmacy with a thesis on urethral suppositories, and he then worked as a salesman for several pharmaceutical houses. He moved to England in 1880 and into partnership with Silas Burrough…
Smith & Nephew in the Health Care Industry (review)
Reviewed by: Smith & Nephew in the Health Care Industry David Cantor James Foreman-Peck. Smith & Nephew in the Health Care Industry. Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar, 1995. xiii + 269 pp. Ill. $71.95. The company that became Smith & Nephew began when Thomas James Smith opened a pharmacy in Hull in 1856. By 1857–58 commercial pressures had prompted Smith to turn from retailer to wholesaler, supplying especially cod-liver oil to hospitals, dispensa…
Glaxo
Reviewed by: Glaxo: A History to 1962 David Cantor R. P. T. Davenport-Hines and Judy Slinn. Glaxo: A History to 1962. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv + 406 pp. Ill. $110.00. This is the story of Glaxo, the dried-milk powder that gave its name to a pharmaceutical company. The company that became Glaxo was founded by Joseph Nathan, a Jewish Londoner who migrated to Australia in 1853 to prospect for gold. Apparently a policeman advi…
The Health of Nations
Reviewed by: The Health of Nations: Public Opinion and the Making of American and British Health Policy David Cantor Lawrence R. Jacobs. The Health of Nations: Public Opinion and the Making of American and British Health Policy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. xvi + 259 pp. $34.50. The Health of Nations sets out to trace the significance of public opinion to twentieth-century British and American health policy. Focusing on the negot…
Crafting Science
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 3, Fall 1998
Why Arthritis
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 4, Winter 1999
Gout
Although this book traces the history of gout back to antiquity, its heart is an account of the disease as the insignia of the gentleman in Georgian Britain. As Roy Porter and G. S. Rousseau show, gout was commonly depicted as a disease of heredity and excess, something that affected rich men--those who ate and drank, slept around, kept late hours, and squandered fortunes. It was incurable and chronic, but possible to live with; indeed, it was so…
Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain
"Biology matters" (p. xx)! In this book Peter C. English attacks social historians for privileging perceptions of disease over biology, and for ignoring the role of the latter in shaping the knowledge and management of disease. He claims that it is possible to identify, in the past, evidence of actual biological change in the nature of rheumatic fever. His argument is that the disease has provided a moving target for clinicians, and that its chan…
Cancer And The Nazis
The Business of Medicine
This book is the second commissioned history of Glaxo published in recent years. The first—Richard Davenport-Hines and Judy Slinn, Glaxo: A History to 1962 (1992)—told Glaxo's story from its beginnings in the 1840s as a general store in New Zealand to the retirement of Harry Jephcott as chairman and managing director in 1963. It was the story of how Joseph Nathan & Co., the producer of a dried milk powder called Glaxo, became a major pharmaceutic…
The Cure
This welcome book tells the extraordinary story of a purported cancer cure, that reveals much about Soviet medicine and science during the Cold War. The "cure" had its origins in the research of Grigorii Roskin (1892-1964), a protozoologist, who in 1923 became interested in tumor transplantation—as a means of tackling certain questions within cytology and the histology of cancer, and later in search of a cure for the disease. At the time, the maj…
Toward a Response Model in Establishment Surveys
Between Galen, Geddes, and the Gael
Arthur Brock (1879-1947) is generally remembered as the physician who treated poet Wilfred Owen for shell shock and as the translator of Galen and other ancient physicians. He was also a key figure in the early-twentieth-century humanist revival within medicine. Brock's interest in humanism, I argue, was inspired by a broader concern about modernity and by a desire to return medicine and society to the more harmonious, organic existence that he b…
Cancer, Quackery and the Vernacular Meanings of Hope in 1950s America
Hope was central to cancer control in twentieth-century America. Physicians placed great store in its power to persuade people to seek medical help as early as possible in the development of the disease, when it was most amenable to treatment; to maintain patients' loyalty through what could be a long, painful and uncertain course of therapy; and to encourage doubts about alternative healers. Some also argued that hope could have beneficial thera…
Uncertain Enthusiasm
Historians have highlighted a growing medical enthusiasm for public health education movies in the early twentieth century. This essay suggests that there is another historiographic tale to tell, of concerns that films might undermine the public health messages they were designed to promote—concerns that threatened continued interest in movies during the Depression of the 1930s. First, focusing on cancer-education movies aimed at the general publ…
Introduction
Introduction: Cancer Control and Prevention in the Twentieth Century David Cantor At first sight the development of cancer control programs in Europe and in North America might seem to follow similar trajectories: on both continents they emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and "early detection and treatment" were generally the cornerstone of policy.1 From this perspective, control was most likely to succeed if [End Page …
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