ALL POSTS
How Fossils Get That Way: Paleontologist Anna “Kay” Behrensmeyer’s Years Amidst Rock and Bone.
Between the Children and Catastrophe, A Woman: Frances O. Kelsey’s Victory Over Thalidomide.
Global Warming and Nuclear Fallout: The Foundational Geochemistry of Saruhashi Katsuko.
Christine Ladd-Franklin and the Color Wars of the Late Nineteenth Century.
Generations: The Neuroscience Dynasty of Cécile and Marthe Vogt
Workers as Humans: Lillian Moller Gilbreth and the Founding of Industrial Psychology.
Separate. Mamie Phipps Clark and the Psychology of American Segregation.
Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology
Virginia Satir and the Art of Family Communication.
Tsuruko Haraguchi: The Strenuous Road to Becoming Japan’s First Woman Doctor of Psychology.
Neuroembryology in Wartime: Rita Levi-Montalcini and the Discovery of Nerve Growth Factor
Virginia Johnson and the Development of Effective Sex Therapy.
Filling in the Gaps: Naomi Weisstein’s Active Brains and Activist Life.
Lymph, There it is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research
Though the Profession Be Against You: Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and the Battle for Medical Women
Midwife to a Nation: Madame du Coudray and the King’s Commission to Professionalize Childbirth
One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga of Dr Edith Pechey-Phipson.
Founder’s Curse: The Hard Rise and Long Fall of Elizabeth Blackwell, the First Woman MD
Milk and Blood: Icie Macy Hoobler and the Science of Infant-Mother Nutrition
Blue Babies with Crossword Puzzle Hearts: The Paediatric Cardiology of Helen Taussig