Dale DeBakcsy
How Fossils Get That Way: Paleontologist Anna “Kay” Behrensmeyer’s Years Amidst Rock and Bone.
When it comes to bones, immortality is far from a sure thing. We generally think that the road from bone to fossil is a straight-forward...
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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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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Global Warming and Nuclear Fallout: The Foundational Geochemistry of Saruhashi Katsuko.
On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of Alamogordo, New Mexico. At the time, it...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Christine Ladd-Franklin and the Color Wars of the Late Nineteenth Century.
Color is among the most familiar of our sensations, and at the same time also one of the most foreign. Whereas any child can tell you...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Generations: The Neuroscience Dynasty of Cécile and Marthe Vogt
“There was a tunnel, and at the end a beautiful light, and I heard the voices of my family calling to me.” For centuries this, the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Workers as Humans: Lillian Moller Gilbreth and the Founding of Industrial Psychology.
Humans have been building structures out of ceramic brick for five thousand years, and for four thousand nine hundred of those years the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Separate. Mamie Phipps Clark and the Psychology of American Segregation.
Separate But Equal. Of all America's variously Orwellian brandings, few have wrought as much human suffering as those three words. It is...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology
There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Mary Ainsworth, Infant Anxiety, and the Case of the “Strange Situation”
We tend to think of babies as, psychologically, relatively uncomplicated creatures. They are happy when clean, warm, and fed, and angry...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Of Gifted Children and the Banality of Menstruation: The Educational Psychology of Leta Hollingworth
What do you do with a gifted child? A child who learns new concepts three or four times faster than his contemporaries, often withdraws...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Tsuruko Haraguchi: The Strenuous Road to Becoming Japan’s First Woman Doctor of Psychology.
Do Not Interact With Men Easily Do Not Dance Go to Church Every Sunday Spend Money From Home Wisely Do Not Become as Aggressive as an...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Neuroembryology in Wartime: Rita Levi-Montalcini and the Discovery of Nerve Growth Factor
It is 1942, and Allied bombs are raking the city of Turin, wreaking a thudding vengeance for Il Duce’s cynical alliance with Nazi Germany....
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Virginia Johnson and the Development of Effective Sex Therapy.
In 1955, if you were a man who suffered from premature ejaculation, or a woman who had never known an orgasm, your choices were few and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Filling in the Gaps: Naomi Weisstein’s Active Brains and Activist Life.
For the last thirty-two years of her life, Naomi Weisstein (1939-2015), the mercurial spirit who was simultaneously a cognitive...
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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
One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga of Dr Edith Pechey-Phipson.
In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim 10 million lives over the...
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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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