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DATE 1997
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DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Book Excerpt - Wilhelm C. Pioneer of Environmental Carcinogenesis
Herausgegeben von Rolf Winau und Beiuy Muller Dietz
Medizingeschichte und Gesellschaftskritik
Festschrift f^...rGerhard Baader
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Vilhelm C. Boeper Pleocer of Environmental Carcinogenesis
Robert N. ProctorProctor
or three or four
powerful was the most dustrial
carcinogeos was producing
hefust to study
Ancadreas of
Tarson praised to 1942
nograph on the topic whole
thedrawing -ironmental cancer by
cers is traceable to to
able yet the role
,
the National Card
1904 1948
1904
from 19481904
and be paid
that led to the 1958 O
Organization that the and is therefore
that
uncontroversal Gguy
which of which
was true He
he and
carcinogemcity
once
sccording to un
here are the single
single most widely
Brary Two groups apparentlyapparently
Eike his repeated denunciations
pap
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tobacco industry
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advertisemeni
gas cantatas cantatas to the front to be
after thewar in 1923
soon
and
States from Germany
included delivering
became interested
more than30300 scientific scientific
the production of syntheticsynthetic synthetic chemi-
as now now was explain to how explain explain the
infectious agentsand artifacts leading diagnosisdiagnosis
First World War when cigarertes cigarertes were
suspected thedelayed
cancer
followed followed by
cancers
his view view , was the inhalsoon inhalsoon of coal tar formes and au
exhaust along with asphalt asphalt dass from 10ade 10ade and laden smoke for
chiracy
of diseuse civilization
contury."
contury." HHuueeppeett Huepet though
Huepet advocate of view His
rather egrious and
egregious egregious forms
century
led for micha w some
myopier most notablyhis dismissal wha
Hueper always though thot cigaretes from gencral hozards
Wilhelm C
Tumors and
Occupational
The
1385-3,390 1385-3,90
campaign's
campaign's
campaign's cosmotact
campaign's
cia abaus derandcdaerlandcal
pps pps ( somowa
Adata Medical and
Gewis #ach inick-
Gre Gre Gre ty
eatively induarial chemicais - and be was noteatively
Fischer for example and Joseph
of
of cancer bas disappeared
suggestionsuggestion has apparently
would probably be difficult to do so
add
probablyno for any sound scientific
fullowed up by epidemiological
1. Du Pont and Bladder Cancer
Heper's
buzard at Du Pont'sPont's dye works in
Lahoratory the company's Haskell
months of unsuccessful
Lahoratory of
hunting in
interested in environmental
employment there
of the Nazi party or an anti
the fatherlandin the
in 1917 when warconditions
already
lamiliar Nueper
lamiliar with
lugh
lugh rates
countnes
increasedbladder capnrcoedruacing
couarry clear invariably
published ten or twenty years
ThisThis wasclear clear evidence to him that
between years
the beginning of exposures and the
importance ofsuch studied the
wed gran vermicides
refrigerant pounds carbon
glycols and related suivems suivems
Teflonand Freon Freon
Teflon cojonys
HarborDu Pont made tage
} In 1924
in China Blueper was assigned
acute heart
investigate way a number
young
showed containingcontaining
the Europeans's
discussthis newoccupa ional discase
made the way so print Du Pon
from the outset by the restrictionsDa Poat placed on
Resourch projects ware deteamed not by the institute's institute's
were
ongually
disallowed
Huperand hisCompany various departments the Du Pont Company provided the funds
which
colleagues
companiesmight
modimcaoldical evninformationinformation
the prodier Huepor was
bothered by
the Laboratory was not
studies that allowed to carry een n kngtem
more tras 1 year or two might reveal much as cancer The only exception was a
which dogs given orally to for a period of
cause
earned
him both
this acclaim corporate potency - Blueper concluded from that by
and viruse of the the company'cs ompany'scompany's
substances
conduct failure to
bag
ociably
studies the carcinogenic effects
ociablcyoncluded chloreprene . He also concluded hydrazine
wamiable media
secrecy was
was often
Hueyes cmployees were being
appeared whas appeared
to be heavy
the whether this mught be case and the
Modical Cassamiz's f^r 154-155 04
David Admenstration Admensstration
{>
dima eb kl
that they had been adding lead to several batches of
include gynthteichis formation
Hueper asked his research chiel whether he
When Hueper the chief become upsetthat Hug ersecrets
manufacturing
discovered one of the company's closely
to help On another occasion Hucper
Works in Salem County New
guarded manufacturing
manufacturing to visit the company's
dete seriously to
bow seriously workers
vapors and dust The Chambers Works
already
as thesite
notorious and several killat in thecourse
( compound for gasoline ( The
manufacture
the nickname FuszFusz *Ma
in reference to the fact that many ofthe poisoned workers develope
hallucinations)Hueper was taken to the plant floor with several collage
was surprised to find that the
who told him that heand his
plant was very clean He nuntioned
men had worked
might to clean iut p
Hueper realized that what he had seon was a stagal performare be
asked to see the benzidine operation in a separate
, for which
had not been forewarned There he found the powdery white bereke
platform window sills everywhere everywhere on the road loading
the
He wrote a memo to Mr. Du Post describng describing
experience
sills
on
awor and was never In November
again again allowedallowed toto
Hueper
visit theChamber
of January 1938. The
excuse efforts of trouble whenhe protested
protested credcitredit medical director and
Hueper
the efforts eforts two of hes Du Pont superiors head of the Haskell Lab - to claim
baza experimental demonstration of the naphthylamine bladder concez
was informed at the tone that he was contractually
work he refused his Du Pont
withoutthe company's consent but
refused to
reault was bounded by company officials for nuch ofthe west of
destb company attitudes softened somewtut a 1984 essay by a
1974 cited Bueper's record with thecompany
worker worker health and safety le 1974
evidence of its longst^ding Occupational Safety and #5
stration baul adopted national standards to limit occupanwui exposures
the final y admiardadmiard and betanaphthylamine sod in 1976 company company company finally
admiard tha
2.000 dye workers exposed
Michacis
17 Uueger 30 S Nashes Nashes
eebor a.
Nashes Nashes Nashes Red
Ya Co Me teats Py
victim tobladder cancer Hueper must have felta certain vindication for loving
sounded the alam so early
* Occupational Tumors and Allied Diseases
In the summer of 1938. Hueper began work on his page magnum opus
published in 1941 as Occupational Tumors and dified
Diseases The book presents
Be first major review of world literature on occupational causes of cancer but
theper fora time had difficulty fading a publisher C Thomas of Springfield
agreed HiHninois nois finallaygred
to
to
pprintrint
the
manuscript
but
only
after
Husper's new employer
Rm Willam R. Wamer agreed to furnish $ 1.000 to offset
costs Hueper had worked for Warner since the summer of 1938 and had
given freedom to work on sent^>ficprojects of his own choosing Much of his
spent preparing his manuscript during which time he also studied the
counogenic effects ofsunlight hormones coal t^rarscais asbestos and ionizing
"
began his book by suggesting that gigantic growth of modern
Hueperhad bath turnedturned
bath is creators and beneficiaries into victires of a boss of
diseases never observed before The stuemical stuemical industry lad
syntheuc substances
ending ending numbernumber and for ever-
lacquers pigments
machines
motora and machines
drugs
componuts
componunts drugs
articles
anamerable other articles
Metallurgical industries were exposingpeople in
arsenic lead niercury and
chemical insecticides had had introduced lead arsenic copper and
had introduced novel threas into the
example cising unprecedented lovels of dust as
lww medical
diagnostic tools remgan-
scals for preserving preserving and coloring
radium- ultraviolet remgan-radium-
and
rays and new
Workersexposed to aromatic com-
dafone included
pronarprsonars canhor sukara coaltar
suckerssuckers dyersdyers
explosive workers
unlimery
micrs
makers
Curie Comuni is the Conca Nale NR 1997 ya Wahmudon
pagjume
valcanters
pharmaceutualpharmaceutual pharmaceutual
exposed to one degre
Hueper went ou to exte though
preventable andthat the key in most cases soferd
process The hand cancers cancers formerly
safety by the introduction of
copper smelting
rash the rash of cancers associatertwith those regions
ofarconical beratuses and epithetionis
would probably end
substances 20
occupsional convers
of the prodaar
ben largely
closing
the
WalesWales had
drepi^
H^per
predicted
drepi^
KeichensteiKneichensteinla G
arsenic Germa
did spinners not
because the
German cufton
oil An
shit from made pinning
spiderne in the United States
where apparentlapyarently schwed
acid further i England
place took
ccartiear rtier in
temperatures at
wah ^ relatively
in Germany because the shift from
English
and
Engfish combining tarry soot
Dues were often torraously narrow
be
bol and vertical segments
one to cawl through the chumey
requiring the chumey seveni diametr chumey were only
uches in
climbing
diameter hence the poxatice
"
year old
for low pounds Geriau
therfore therefore easier and safer to clean clean
Cancer In other words
about
the
willegies
willegies
been foundto
seance seance a early an
after these laws were
of
the cancer of
scrcture
of aliguitynoproved noproved
equally appafliog
occupational houth
sectiodes - as die imponsible
Anabondo copper
mines
from the
disappear
Muntasia Substances Substances such as
generations would heve te
;
erred
late
1937 there were
only
two states
Colorado and
by agents
physicians were fa more concerned
Gronan accent
didn't help his case
previously he had returned to Gormany to seek
Pathaike REEEE gre
**** tee BY gts
Started Stared Started Started
en Fuhbein was replaced as editor and thejournal stopped occupationaland environmental environmental cancer bnzards
publishing awk
Hucper's Censorship
Starr's known book on that American scicoties
Transformation Switi
of American &
war yearsowned owned autonomy
This was indeed the pondj^
Research Graus who in 19511951 wro
choosing and is met dii
ond sees f^ t
to dat
wore promisingpromising promising
The M7 may well
until &
1944 for examste It was
outside
Humper's investigatoris nvestigators coturely
not
institute
experience shows though
Hueper receiveda lener front the Federal
that he was poder investigation for
>>
had firmare Ou Pont's medical director derwunced him 4
able to tha rge that was dismissed when Hueper was
mer colleague jealous of the declaim declaim Hueper
to show
had
of * wrote to the director the NCI accusing " though this teo
was not necessarily necesarily even pro
Hueapekirnd of patermilsoc .one could
rugerment relaxions . On at least one one occasion
raining health
Political Politcal pressures also came from the Public Health Service's own Division of
instal Hygiene DIH which on several occasions forced Hueper to limit or even
in terminats projects involving chemical or nuclear hazards to one instance the DMB
director forced Hueper to remove by name from a studyidentifying
hazard
spcupational spcupational
in the chromats inceary
the paper evenmally
identifyng cancer as an
appeared apeared under
de sole authorship
of Thomas Mancuso then at theOhio Health Department oven
been documenting documenting
ozard as a consultant for the Mutual
Baltimore
since
another copies
of carboncarbon copies
1946. On his prepublication
occasion Hueper leamed
prepublication papers submitted to the
board
NCI
clearance were being routinely routinely submitted to the DB
Punt company company company management for commentary sad appraisal Hueperwas startled by
olyanonable
what he considered considered
evidence of an
collision between some members
Hea~-n years
Service with an induxrial persecusion se
pary which had been en-
page memo to John R.
Shady History of the
Institute
Hueper Hueper
Hueper
complained
Environmental Environmental
chronicling ThTe he Dark and
Section as the National
him by that pressures hadbeen exerted on
the
industrial
to restrict his travel
compensation trials and his
public bealth On severalseveral oc asions
submited for publication the names of
carcinogens
carcinogens Scientificpapers
up for approval " in
Deparment of Labor on matters
until he instance
resigned
Tumors and
, fearing
" by
by
and the phically
Hooper protested his research but
information officers
restuctions such as these the
perverted by
by Michael R. Surgeon General's
grounds that they they worked indirecty to
manager to spend
kamer kamer insure
Battnad an Phe
be ted Be
sad setcospessara Wneb cespowd
hess hu 7 should
move devolop vancer No Huepes 306
onve
ocupational
occupational cancer
impensation impensation
consequential act
investigating from investigating the
Wllers of the Colorado plateas Hupper
in April of 1988
vare of the fact that Dropean
tes of lung cancer His efforts
longsufferesduffered from vayi
WA papers dealing with radiation had to be
evidnce When to Huepersought presentpresent evidence of the
mission ARCColorado StateMedical Society the 4FC's Director of
Biolog edicine Shields Warren ordered
meinect I references in his papetorthe
the NCY
to the Sonay's presides
When word
hy nays upWarren again
director
silently axOPENE
lassiture smissal Huepocvetruedatat the The epidemiologicaepidlemiolgical work en occupational
but was cancer order came from
eneral fiueper was heaxefond
from
was
prohibited
allowed to do only experimental work
investigations into
the camssance of consi
search travel west
otherwise old
Out of Step With the Times
rained in 1964 be ww
As he later wrote he had "
to
OSQ mumo mumo
1. BrymbusBrymbus $3 1961.70 1961.70
may prove to be of atom
Blame for thisconditon
industrial managers
dramatic rebirth of
bit ernes
be
bitterness
as
goverMZIU
comprehensive set of strategies strategies to avoid moral and piece or delay em-
the lloottoonn
were not compensable
publicize the problem
presong
many of thewaxpresong
such such activities la an
Publichealth authorities
were also culpable
industry to becaptured
industry
interests
Bemselves ut often not until political pressure had been broughtbrought
groupe
presu hond pointing medical establishment establishment Hueper
of
governmentgeovernmente medical reasreasreas of needendeedednededneededneded inquiry inquiry inquiry andand andand in
tudy oof fneededbazards posed built radioactive of
bazards
posed to
to bones
on the radioactive radioactive dag
people living hosphate mines and there were
insufficient studies of the risks from retall
brome dust and fumes in foundries
shops More needed to be se
rick ef ects in bout the
effects of acid mists manufacture manufacture and chrome
chrome operations chromite
pigruents used in various industries Stoles
migrant laborers
pesticides pesticides wnd of the nickel retiners of
Ingioia Evidence of a
cancer risk anonganong chemical workers tumo
romatic amines in rubber factories for exaraplez had been been around for decasiot
ybere were the studies of the effects of these substances on dyera paint~ s
rinters using colored ^<aks More needed in be known about whether the
given to women as contraceptives contraceptives
of
merepause increase the risk &
carcinogens terinecancer and whether
cansferred through the placenta
carcinogens in the midternal organst
to canst cancer
tineper
compled
wuh few important exceptions pubhc
had
uthontes
been
study problems such as these Why was the bver
laza d
laza d
animnul discovered only in the 1978 when plastics
inplanted plastics had
exploring whetherwhebtheer et
Lun or other
Whybabd ad thesenever
show
show
increased
increasiendcreased
conversi
long
ceding irradiated funds toaconscruble number ofyoung subteryis the
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Hueper's relentless
me ofhis closest friends
uncanny lucility
)
the NC
to check and alarm
precision cholarly cholarly especially
yebrows yebrows yebrows
a
National
Coansil
ndustry
stormedstormed
in
in
waving
a
copy
of
the
sticlewaged in among among the picturespictures of
Larold Stewart later recalled the for that
life On one vicuska
where where
scattie in winch Hea
scurity outreat batang bermid
a pro at
fs Bege opp
0
radna tazer
publish
such
appeared
flag in the face ofabullw
problemproblem Hooper's main
problem
carrents of
ume
suspicion
could even
even
wennethwenneth
Rudolf
Vrchow
Vrchow
rather staid colleagues The warung rea
that he was
couc of cancer a
the century to the early
that chemicals
genes o
or
to
perhaps
the parely axxumptive
radiaton radiaton anadnd other
was in his view
mums Beeper
play an important role in } 1930s s laboremphasi
workplace +
in the post conservatism
theup
severoarent
boasted that he had a3 peers
of flueper did
Rosenthal Memorial Award for
Advancement Association for the
In 1958 be won the Anne
Frankel presented to him by the American American
Nations United United
the Cause and Control ofCamerCamer the World
presented the award at a plenary
session of the
United Nations
at the Public Health Service
of
congratulations Ichievement grant him
their courage
in effecting
year the editors of Modem
Distinguished
Ichievement Award in
effecting control of noxious emronmenul
emronmenul agents in
HuantarianHuantarian Award of the National Nealth
Medal of the Cancer Pramion Pramion Camar in Rome
thoors of the mighty
concrete concrete unui
important
role
the
in
7
Amul First
Award at the Society
than more a dozen y^'k^
honored
, the Cane
. Huoper
moest have
ork the NIH awand clied clciledied be
leukemia bave pleased
his former inducedinduced
leukemia recognie
bal
posed canoe hazard mors
by water
Apri
chemicals andhis 1942 of ththe e Nanoral
Coupational Benture wasdedicated
soldier dedicated in the manory of
the war 22
of haut
at
atack age 84 nero call tolknero Most of his wating
bis none He is probably
Carson whose chapter on
relied For relied heavily colaborative
helped arrange a colaborative
the specially be
the wider public Stent Spring omina y
pathologist
^'migr^p'athologist
Carson to the Risaster
contammmed contammmed water
Hueper was Caser's
conviction that we are comparison of the present cancer
century when common killers
of carcinogens carcinogens
Hoeper was an activist
arcinogens might pave
wwe tie
mtractable than biol^giu Gaul > "
biol^ggiourms
Now " Now fe
a
arcmogent
testinternalized taken Ecally
wat
weething to be
seriously
wething
with
loudy ofthe
Addestration OSHA and the Environmental Protection Agency in 1979 Hueper
Addestration as having
to clear the path
helped contribution whatwe
might
political
today must also notbe forgotten Hueper was aware thai
what process and what thatmuchmuchof we knowor don't know je the product of
whar opportunity and struggle Ignorance about what cases cancer and to whar
is therefore not just a rotural consequence of the shifting boundary between
unknown but a political consequence of doxisionsdoxisions concerting concerting
how toto approach approach or neglext what can andshould be done Ignorance is sucially
constructed by outright consorship admittedly are by Bilures fad
cilors to absence or neglessnegless of interested parties and with noise Hueper was aware of och thang
to jam the scientific
mrwaves
ensure that our
memory of his labory does notfade with the passage