Dale DeBakcsy
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jan 29
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 24, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 11, 2023
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...
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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
Aug 24, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 6, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
May 24, 2023
The Totally Improbable, Completely True Life of Betsi Cadwaladr, Welsh War Nurse
On a winter’s night in 1854, two steel-willed women regarded each other with mutual dislike across a desk located on a scrap of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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...
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