ABSTRACT
At the beginning of June 1987 the Auckland monthly magazine, Metro, published as its cover story a 16 page article entitled, 'An "Unfortunate Experiment" At National Women's*. Written by Sandra Coney, a freelance journalist and Phillida Bunkle, a Wellington academic specialising in Women's Studies, the article described a policy for treating cervical cancer adopted by Associate Professor Herbert Green, an obstetrician and gynaecologist at National Women's Hospital, Auckland. Professor Green was described as 'a man with a mission' who wanted to save women from mutilating surgery and 'so he had to prove . . . that CIS [carcinoma in situ] was a harmless disease which hardly, if ever, progressed to invasive cancer.'
