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The Many Wars Of Florence Nightingale
Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to soldiers who had been essentially left to die, Florence...
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In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the government stumbled after a consistent...
View ArticleBook Review: Letter To A Young Female Physician by Suzanne Koven
Walking into a doctor’s office, most of us feel that we are crossing into the domain of some manner of super being, an individual who has stared steadily into the eyes of humanity’s deepest and most...
View ArticleBetween The Children And Catastrophe, A Woman: Dr. Frances O. Kelsey’s...
In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of Europe’s new wonder drug, thalidomide, to be introduced to the...
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To Battle, And Battle, And Battle: The Many Struggles Of American Red Cross...
Clara Barton was on this planet for nine decades, and spent roughly seven of those locked in institutional struggles that would have broken and gutted a person of lesser determination and drive....
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The last two months have seen heroism of unprecedented scale from the medical workers of the world, and among them a cavalcade of women nurses, doctors, emergency technicians, respiratory specialists,...
View ArticleA Healer At The Fringe Of Civilization: The Siberian Odyssey Of Doctor Anna Bek
It is the early 1870s and we are heading into the mining town of Gornyi Zerentui, located in the mountainous Transbaikal region on the distant Siberian fringe of Imperial Russia. Here political...
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From The Underground Railroad In Syracuse To A Historic Practice In Santo...
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American woman to earn a Medical Degree, and within half a century seven thousand American women had followed her example. Twelve years prior to that, in...
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An ER Doctor In Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon
The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six women into the variously welcome glare of public scrutiny. Each...
View ArticleMidwife To A Nation: Madame du Coudray And The King’s Commission To...
Midwife. Few words in the history of western medicine can evoke sudden and unequivocal academic tribal sentiment as that single term. To one school of thinking, the rise of the professional doctor...
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