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Dale DeBakcsy
Sep 24, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 26, 2023
Founder’s Curse: The Hard Rise and Long Fall of Elizabeth Blackwell, the First Woman MD
The long life of Elizabeth Blackwell (1818–1910), the world’s first woman to earn a medical degree, can be divided into two roughly equal...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
The Experimentalist: The Tale of Mary Putnam Jacobi vs. Proper Victorian Medicine
As we have seen, the nineteenth century boasts a rich roster of medical women, any one of whom is the stuff of heroes: the trailblazing...
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