Dressed To Kill – Sydney Ross Singer Soma Grismaijer

Typically, the response is a blank stare that seems to say, “Everybody knows this is beautiful. It’s the way people are supposed to look.” Our culture conditions us without our being aware of the process. Few people stop to ask who is setting the fashion and what makes a popular fashion acceptable. Of course, breasts are in fashion. In Western civilizations, they have been for centuries.

One hundred years ago, fashion dictated that women constrict their bodies with corsets to the point of disease. Disease was an unfortunate side effect of being beautiful—if disfigurement in the shape of an hourglass is one’s idea of beauty. But women are at least now able to talk about such things. And as anthropologists, we talk to people as a primary form of investigation. In developing a questionnaire, we tried to allow for candor in the responses. Some questions can be leading, resulting in biased responses.

It was therefore crucial that we develop the right questions. In our study, we were trying to distinguish between groups of women on the basis of breast cancer incidence and to see whether this distinction was associated with specific behaviors and attitudes toward bras and breasts. If bra-wearing behavior was indeed associated with breast cancer, we would have to make sure there were no other factors that could explain the connection.

We felt no need to repeat other researchers’ work by examining all the known risk factors in our questionnaire. Besides, as risk factors, they are not causally related to breast cancer but are merely predictive of the disease. The connection of bras to breast cancer, however, could be more than a correlation. Given the lymphatic mechanism we described, the relationship could be causal. In other words, we did not have to ask whether, for example, the interviewee had a close relative with breast cancer.

We already know that more women with breast cancer have this history than do women without breast cancer. Since this has nothing to do with the wearing of bras or the lifestyle surrounding that behavior, we did not need to ask about it. How can significant risk factors be viewed as unnecessary to this study? This is an important question, and to answer it, we must examine the nature of research into the cause of disease.

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All matters pertaining to your physical health should be supervised by a healthcare professional. It is a sign of wisdom, not cowardice, to seek a second or third opinion. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN 9780757005510 (cloth) | ISBN 9780757005466 (paperback) | ISBN 9780757055461 (epub) The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/ NISO Z39.48-1992. OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments From the Publisher Foreword Preface Introduction 1: Looking for the Enemy 2: Making the Connection 3: Dressed to Kill 4: The Big Picture 5: Testing the Theory 6: Taking It to the Street 7: Beauty and the Bra 8: To B or Not to B 9: The Real Enemy 10: If Breasts Could Talk Conclusion References About the Authors OceanofPDF.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS SOMA AND I WISH TO THANK THE MANY VOLUNTEERS FOR THEIR ASSIStance in this project and to acknowledge the willingness of women throughout the United States to share the most intimate details of their personal lives with us.

We also would like to thank all the medical doctors, osteopaths, naturopaths, massage therapists, chiropractors, lymphatics experts, cancer survivors, and media people who have helped keep this issue alive by spreading the message.

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