A short history of breast cancer

Moulin, Daniel De

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0601-8

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“…According to de Moulin (1983: 9), Galen's theories on disease “attained an authority that remained unchallenged until well into the sixteenth century . .…”

Section: The Historical Perception That Women Were “Cancer‐prone”mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Women's lack of heat made it difficult for their bodies to evacuate toxins, one of which would be black bile. The accumulation of this toxin was caused by insufficient drainage of humours (De Maitre 1998; de Moulin 1983). In this framework, the build‐up of black bile often resulted in a cancerous tumour, therefore women's difficulties in dispelling these fluids made them cancer‐prone.…”

Section: The Historical Perception That Women Were “Cancer‐prone”mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ideas about cancer were remarkably stable in form until the close of the eighteenth century (de Moulin 1983; Wolff 1907). And though there were certainly differences in the details, examining theories of cancer broadly shows that there is little variance in their gendered implications – women's inferior bodily design remains primarily responsible for her cancer‐susceptibility.…”

Section: The Historical Perception That Women Were “Cancer‐prone”mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender Ideology and Disease Theory: Classifying Cancer in Nineteenth Century Britain

Comeau¹

2007

J Historical Sociology

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This paper examines cancer discourse as a case study of the social construction of biomedicine. According to medical historians, cancer has long been associated with women. During the 19th century, there were renewed efforts to classify cancerous tumours. Through an analysis of British 19th century medical literature, I explore the intersections between gender ideologies and cancer classifications. My findings indicate that historical associations between women and cancer informed early cancer classifications. In the mid-19th century, when scientific advances challenged these models, British surgeons incorporated new aspects of prevailing gender ideologies suggesting a biomedical commitment to view cancer in gendered terms.

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“…According to de Moulin (1983: 9), Galen's theories on disease “attained an authority that remained unchallenged until well into the sixteenth century . .…”

Section: The Historical Perception That Women Were “Cancer‐prone”mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Historical Perception That Women Were “Cancer‐prone”mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Historical Perception That Women Were “Cancer‐prone”mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender Ideology and Disease Theory: Classifying Cancer in Nineteenth Century Britain

Comeau¹

2007

J Historical Sociology

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“…18 Bernard Peyrilhe (1735-1804) in 1773 envisioned surgery that encompassed the entire breast, axillary nodes, and pectoralis major muscle. 19 Samuel Sharpe in England and Benjamin Bell (1749Bell ( -1806 in Scotland also promoted mastectomy and the excision of palpable axillary lymph nodes. However, the limitations on surgery in the preanesthetic and preantiseptic era clearly continued to inhibit timely intervention and restrict its use except as a treatment of desperation.…”

Section: When Was a Local Theory Of Breast Cancer Introduced?mentioning

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Development of Modern Breast Cancer Treatment

Roses¹

2005

Breast Cancer

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“…William Stewart Halsted, in the nineteenth century, developed the full mastectomy technique by resection of the chest muscles and lymphatic dissection of axillary lymph nodes. This was the first treatment that led to a cure for this cancer (MOULIN, 1983).…”

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confidence: 99%