Dale DeBakcsy
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 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 26, 2023
Lymph, There it is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research
For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognised in their time and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 26, 2023
Though the Profession Be Against You: Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and the Battle for Medical Women
There are cases where the towering homogeneity of Victorian culture is exaggerated. The era of Prince Albert and Lord Palmerston was,...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 26, 2023
Midwife to a Nation: Madame du Coudray and the King’s Commission to Professionalize Childbirth
Midwife. Few words in the history of western medicine can evoke sudden and unequivocal academic tribal sentiment as that single term. To...
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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 26, 2023
Milk and Blood: Icie Macy Hoobler and the Science of Infant-Mother Nutrition
A young mother of the early twentieth century who could not or did not want to breast feed was a creature entirely at the hands of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 26, 2023
Blue Babies with Crossword Puzzle Hearts: The Paediatric Cardiology of Helen Taussig
It is sometime in the 1930s, and you are walking into a ward full of crouching children with blue-tinted lips. Something is wrong with...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Making All Nurses Equal: The Many Battles of Estelle Massey Osborne
In 1923, when Estelle Massey graduated from the City Hospital No. 2 School of Nursing with the highest examination score in the entire...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
The Secret Life of Hormones: Rosalyn Yalow and the Discovery Of Radioimmunoassaying
There is an unsung immensity in the craft of Measuring Things Better. Within our sparkling cleverness for developing better and better...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Ancient Secrets, Modern Methods: Nobel Laureate Tu Youyou, Malaria, and the Discovery of Artemisinin
In 1955, the World Health Organization had what, on the surface, seemed a splendid idea: Let’s Get Rid of Malaria. Just four years...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
One Doctor Against Nuclear War: Helen Caldicott and the Physicians for Social Responsibility
It might be difficult to believe if you were born within the last three decades, but there was once a time when America was led by a...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Isabel Morgan, Polio, and the High Cost of Marriage
Polio, unique among humanity’s eradicated diseases, carries with it a visual familiarity that has insistently lingered far beyond its...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
The Concerns of the Earth, and Above: Mae Jemison’s Life in Medicine and Space Travel.
There is a bit of political wisdom we have lived with for half a century now, which says that spending money on space travel, while...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, the Discovery of HIV, and the Fight Against AIDS
Pandemics. Having raised their heads every century or so to spread primal panic and horror on a continental scale, they were something we...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
War, Fame and Surgery: The Amazing Life of Margaret Chung, the First ABC Woman Surgeon
Her mother was raised in a brothel, and her son was Ronald Reagan. Take any section of Dr Margaret Chung’s (1889–1959) life, and lay it...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
Too Bright: Dr Anandibai Joshee, India’s First Woman Medical Doctor
At 9 years old, a girl named Yamuna Joshee was married to her tutor, a man twenty years her senior, who thereupon changed her first name...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
Killer of Cancer, Slayer of Viruses: The Many Medicines of Nobel Prize Laureate Gertrude Elion
Generally, our experience of a particular medicine is as a great faceless thing the name of which we do not know until we desperately...
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