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By Ellen Leopold

A Twentieth-Century tale of Breast melanoma, girls, and Their DoctorsIn the 1st cultural background of breast melanoma, Ellen Leopold asks how sexual politics have formed the connection among sufferer and medical professional, and the way a disorder lately shrouded in secrecy has turn into so public.

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The success of so many current victim-blaming theoriesthat, for instance, breast cancer is caused by high-fat diets or by unresolved emotional traumashows Page 26 how well the ground had already been prepared by ancient arguments we are now reluctant to acknowledge. We seem to tolerate them in modern dress and we don't ask too closely about their pedigree. Their mixed parentagetheir fusion of the pious and the paganis something we clearly shy away from. Given this inheritance, it's not surprising to find that newly diagnosed women still have a fear of being stigmatized by their cancers.

By the end of the nineteenth century, most doctors in the medical mainstream were largely middle-class husbands and fathers. Middle-class wives and daughters constituted their clientele. This doubling of domestic and professional roles provided endless opportunities for the crossover of sexual politics between home and office. In both locations, the oppression of women expressed itself in a bodily submission to male authority. In both contexts women were considered to be physically at risk if not overtly ill.

The book uses a combination of case studies, correspondence, and commentary to document both the continuity and the complexity of the changes that have led to a public candor in the handling of the subject. The groundwork for this approach has been laid over the past two decades by important work on the impact of nineteenth-century medical theory and practice on the lives of women. Feminist revisions of the history of the doctor/patient relationship have also played an important role. I have been fortunate in being able to apply this scholarship to the early history of breast cancer and, with this foundation, to move the story forward into the uncharted waters of the twentieth century.

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