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Biography
Maurice M. Black (May 3, 1918 – September 14, 1996) was a pathologist who was an expert on breast cancer.
Biography
Black was born in Cleveland; hereceived his bachelor's degreefrom Long Island University (1938) and his medical degree in 1943 from New York Medical College (1943). During World War II, he was an officer in the Army Medical Corps and received the Silver Star and three battle stars
Hetaught pathology from 1958 to 1990 atNew York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y. He was the director of the Medical College's Institute for Breast Diseases for two decades and was subsequently affiliated with New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn. He published more than 250 studies.
Career
In 1953, he published withFrancis D. Speer a study in the New York State Journal of Medicine declaring that "ultraradical surgical attempts to cure breast cancer are not consistent with the biology of the disease."He co-authored two books, Human Cancer (1957)and Dynamic Pathology: Structural and Functional Mechanisms of Disease (1964).