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Carrying the Torch: Dr. Hilda Lazarus and the Second Generation of the Indian Medical Movement.
The story of the women’s medical movement in India is, when told at all, generally centered upon its British founding figures - Ida...
Dale DeBakcsy
Feb 20
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Sex After Sixty: The Geriatric Gynecology of Anna Kleegman Daniels.
Sex after menopause. Drug addiction. Abortion. In the early to mid-twentieth century, to be seen as casting an understanding eye on any...
Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 10, 2024
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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...
Dale DeBakcsy
May 12, 2024
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Broken Hearts and Nuclear Secrets: Marie Maynard Daly, America's First Black Woman Chemist.
The years of the Second World War gifted to American feminism one of its most enduring icons in the form of Rosie the Riveter. She was...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 16, 2024
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Lead, TNT, and Rayon: Alice Hamilton's Battle Against Industrial Poisons.
The lack of regulation in American industry during the early Twentieth Century is the stuff of horrific legend - from the grotesqueries...
Dale DeBakcsy
Feb 27, 2024
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Taking the Wheel: Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and the CRISPR-Cas9 Revolution in Gene Editing.
Over the course of the last two decades, humanity has taken its first quiet steps from being the blind victims of genetic-molecular...
Dale DeBakcsy
Feb 19, 2024
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From the Underground Railroad to Santo Domingo: The Doctor’s Journey of Sarah Loguen Fraser
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States; within half a century 7,000 American...
Dale DeBakcsy
Jan 29, 2024
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To Battle, and Battle, and Battle: The Many Struggles of American Red Cross Founder Clara Barton.
Clara Barton resided on this planet for nine decades, and spent roughly seven of those locked in institutional struggles that would have...
Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 25, 2023
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Capping the Chromosome: Elizabeth Blackburn and the Discovery of Telomerase
Telomerase is one of those enzymes which just won’t let you come to a settled opinion. When it runs wild, it promotes cancer. But it...
Dale DeBakcsy
Nov 26, 2023
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Steering the Future of Women in Science: The Institutional Wizardry of Microbiologist Rita Colwell.
One of the exciting and daunting things about doing science in the Twenty-First century is the sheer number of competencies it demands. ...
Dale DeBakcsy
Nov 23, 2023
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Born Not Taught: Marian Koshland and the Source of Antibody Variation.
The human body is a truly wonderful place to live, if you can fit in it. It's warm and protected and, because humans are such clever at...
Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 24, 2023
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Woman of Action: Harriet Boyd Hawes, From Archaeologist to War Nurse to Economic Activist.
Harriet Boyd Hawes was cursed from birth with an overabundance of Purpose. She was ever in search of a Problem to solve, and possessed...
Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 11, 2023
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Making Women Physicians: Marie Zakrzewska and the Creation of the New England Hospital for Women
I wish to say farewell to all those who thought of me as a friend, to all those who were kind to me, assuring them all that the deep...
Dale DeBakcsy
Sep 24, 2023
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Fighting Penicillin's Monster: Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown.
Who (besides, obviously, bacteria) doesn't love penicillin? It's on everybody's shortlist of the most important things we've discovered...
Dale DeBakcsy
Aug 24, 2023
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New WIS Book Release: The Edinburgh Seven by Janey Jones
There are few stories in the history of Women in Science with as much innate and compelling drama as that of the Edinburgh Seven, which...
Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 6, 2023
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Lavinia Waterhouse: Gold Rush Physician, Frontier Suffragette
Lavinia Waterhouse (1809–1890) lived at the intersection of a tangle of ideas that, to the twenty-first-century mind, have no business...
Dale DeBakcsy
May 5, 2023
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A Doctor at Sky’s Edge: Susan Anderson and the Practice of Medicine on America’s Last Frontier
Seventy miles west of Denver, in a small town nestled 8,574 feet above sea level there rests the town of Fraser. Today an enclave of...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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A 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...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Trota of Salerno and the Problem of Medieval Women’s Medicine
Imagine it is the twelfth century, and you have woken up experiencing some trouble breathing. Fortunately, you have the financial...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Between the Children and Catastrophe, A Woman: Frances O. Kelsey’s Victory Over Thalidomide.
In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
101 views
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