Karamanou Marianna, Tekiner Halil, Papaioannou Theodoros G, Konstantopoulos Konstantinos, Androutsos George
University Institute of the History of Medicine and Public Health, Lausanne, Switzerland.
J BUON. 2016 Nov-Dec;21(6):1568-1570.
At the end of the 19th century, in an attempt to define cancer's etiology, scientists considered that cancer was mainly affecting the white race and the temperate zone countries. In their turn, epidemiological studies held in the early 20th century sustained the dogma of cancer's racial distribution, targeting and stigmatizing ethnic groups.
19世纪末，为了明确癌症的病因，科学家们认为癌症主要影响白种人和温带地区国家。而在20世纪初进行的流行病学研究则支持了癌症种族分布的教条，将特定种族群体作为目标并加以污名化。
