Latterly, Pickstone published mainly on modern medical history, e.g. cancer and medical technology; but also on regional history of STM, on which he edited two journal numbers in 2007. With Roberta Bivins, he edited a volume in honour of the late Roy Porter (Palgrave, 2007) and with Peter Bowler, edited the Cambridge University Press History of Science volume on Modern Earth and Life Sciences (2008). 'Ways of Knowing'[7] continues to attract attention, including a special session at the American history of science conference in Washington, DC, 2007, and an invitation to produce an Osiris volume. With his work on recent medical history, it attracted international invitations; in 2007–2008, this included visits to Yale University, Pennsylvania, Paris, Maastricht, Berlin and Mexico.
For the University of Manchester, he initiated a series of 'Interfaculty Lectures', and with friends in Manchester Metropolitan University and the City, planned a major local history festival for 2009.[citation needed][needs update]
Research interestsedit
Pickstone's research interests mostly included aspects of recent medicine, such as the Wellcome project on the history of cancer in Britain, work on medical technology, the history of mental health services, and a collaborative project with the NCRDPC on recent changes in the NHS. He is increasingly interested in the uses of history for health policy.[6]
His wider work on 'Big Pictures' and 'Ways of Knowing' grew from a conviction that through some of the hundreds of excellent papers produced in history of science, technology and medicine since the 1960s, we might develop new and better frames for understanding long-term history. He explored these themes in relation to medical technologies, science-art relations, science-technology relations, and the display of HSTM in museums.[6]
Publicationsedit
Some of his writings he authored as 'John V. Pickstone'.
2009edit
(with Chris Philo) Unpromising Configurations: towards local historical geographies of psychiatry. In: Health and Place
2008edit
(with David Edgerton), Science, Technology and Medicine in Britain, 1750–2000: Modern Science in National and International Context, Cambridge History of Science, vol. 8
The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences, Cambridge History of Science, vol. 6
2007edit
(with J. Anderson & F. Neary), Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients: a transatlantic history of total hip replacement, In: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Palgrave.
Pickstone, John V. (2007). "Contested Cumulations: Configurations of Cancer Treatments through the Twentieth Century". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 81 (1): 164–196. doi:10.1353/bhm.2007.0011. PMC2635842. PMID 17369667.
Thomas, A. M K; Pickstone, J. (6 January 2007). "Imaging: revealing the world within". BMJ. 334 (suppl_1): s12. doi:10.1136/bmj.39052.527396.94. PMID 17204752. S2CID 11066465.
(with Roberta Bivins) Madness, Medicine and Social History: essays in honour of Roy Porter, Palgrave
Medical History in Manchester: health and healing in an industrial city, 1750–2005. In: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library, vol. LXXXVII (special number ed. Pickstone & Stella V. F. Butler, with survey article by Pickstone as introduction).
Science and Technology in Manchester: an introduction to the history. In: Manchester Regional History Review, 18.
The History of Science and Technology in the Manchester Region: Manchester Regional History Review (special number ed. Pickstone with survey article as introduction, Manchester Regional History Review, 18.
Pickstone, John V. (September 2007). "Working Knowledges Before and After circa 1800: Practices and Disciplines in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine". Isis. 98 (3): 489–516. doi:10.1086/521154. PMID 17970423. S2CID 40886779.
2006edit
(with J. S. Metcalfe), Replacing Hips and Lenses: Surgery, Industry and Innovation in Post-War Britain, New Technologies in Health Care – Challenges, Change and Innovation, Palgrave
Innovation, Diverse Knowledges and the Presumed Singularity of Science: Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation, Berghahn Books
Bones in Lancashire: towards long-term contextual analysis of medical technology, In: Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective, Palgrave
2001edit
Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Chicago Press
Referencesedit
^Watts, Geoff (May 2014). "John Victor Pickstone". The Lancet. 383 (9928): 1542. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60738-8. PMID 24800299. S2CID 11301231.
^Cunningham, A (2015). "John Victor Pickstone, or 'JVP'". Dynamis. 35 (1): 193–196. PMID 26012342.
^"Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (The University of Manchester)". Chstm.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
^ abMichael Worboys (23 February 2014). "John Pickstone obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
^Cunningham, Andrew (2015). "John Victor Pickstone (1944-2014)". Dynamis. 35 (1): 193–196.
^ abc"Contact Details (Faculty of Life Sciences – The University of Manchester)". Chstm.manchester.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 5 July 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
^Pickstone, John V. (April 2001). Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. University of Chicago Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-226-66795-9.