Journal article
The Radicalization of Breast Cancer Surgery: Joseph Colt Bloodgood's Role in William Stewart Halsted's Legacy
Abstract
Johns Hopkins's surgeon William Stewart Halsted is renowned for popularizing the radical mastectomy, a disfiguring procedure that was overutilized during the 1900s. Cancer historians have questioned why Halsted, a meticulous surgical investigator, became more aggressive in his approach to breast cancer surgery when his own data failed to show prolonged patient survival. Joseph Colt Bloodgood, one of Halsted's early surgical residents, Hopkins's …
Authors
Wright JR
Journal
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 141–171
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date
2018
DOI
10.1353/bhm.2018.0006
ISSN
0007-5140