Women’s History Month
It’s Women’s History Month so we’re adding to last year’s series on women who have made an impact on medicine. Up next is Orleana Puckett. Puckett was born in 1837 and married her husband at 16. They farmed at the base of the Groundhog Mountain. She gave birth for the first time in 1862, but […]
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It’s Women’s History Month so we’re adding to last year’s series on women who have made an impact on medicine. Up next is Hildegard Peplau. Peplau was born in Pennsylvania in 1909. Her parents were German immigrants and Peplau watched her homemaker mother and wanted more from life. She understood that nursing was one of […]
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It’s Women’s History Month so we’re adding to last year’s series on women who have made an impact on medicine. Up next is Virginia Apgar. Virginia Apgar was born in 1909 in New Jersey. After high school, she attended and graduated from Mount Holyoke College, where she studied zoology, minoring in physiology and chemistry. After […]
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This month we’re highlighting prominent Black figures in the medical field and next up is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler. Born in 1831, Rebecca Lee Crumpler grew up in Pennsylvania and was raised by her aunt. Although her aunt didn’t have formal medical training, she was the de facto doctor in her community and people came […]
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This month we’re highlighting prominent Black figures in the medical field and next up is Dr. Dorothy Height. photo by Adrian Hood – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10074843 Dr. Height was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1912 and grew up outside of Pittsburgh. She was a gifted speaker and student who won a oratorical […]
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We’re continuing our series on women who have made significant advances in medicine and today’s entry is Marie Curie. Known for her work on radioactivity, she was awarded two Nobel Prizes, one in chemistry and one in physics. She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and still today is the only one […]
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Florence Nightingale—known as the founder of modern nursing—is one of the better known names in nursing. Every year, Nurses’ Week happens in early May, corresponding with her birthday.
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This month, we’re highlighting prominent contributions in the medical field from women to celebrate Women’s History Month. To see our full list, click here.
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Historians aren’t actually sure if Agnodice was a real person or just a myth, but she is credited as the first doctor and midwife to assist laboring women in childbirth. She supposedly lived in the 4th century B.C. in Athens. Legend has it that she wanted to become a doctor but was unable to study […]
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This month we’re highlighting prominent figures in the medical field and next up is Adah Belle Thoms.
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