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Showing posts with label women and medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women and medicine. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Rebecca Guarna and the Practice of Medicine

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 Rebecca Guarna, doctor, fl. 1200 (1 April) Like Trota before her and Costanza Calenda after, Rebecca Guaarna is one of the renowned  muli...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Let's Revive Childbed Fever! Back to the Future, Part 21

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Yay! We're Reviving Childbed Fever! Back to the Future, Part 21 So, among all the other great news lately, there's this: in the two ...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Back to the Future, Part 20: "Maternity Care Deserts"

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March of Dimes Report: "Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts Across the US," Back to the Future, Part 20 I've been writing th...
Friday, February 2, 2024

Costanza Calenda, a Fifteenth-Century Medical Practitioner

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Costanza Calenda, One of the Renowned  mulieres Salernitanae  (practicing medicine in 1422) In her extended history of women and the practic...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Clarice de Rothomago, Accused of Illegally Practicing Medicine in Fourteenth-Century Paris

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Clarice de Rothomago (Rouen), medical practitioner (case against her begins 17 January 1312) In her extended history of women and the practi...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Jacoba Félicie de Almania, Fourteenth-Century Parisian Doctor

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Jacoba Félicie, a Medieval Medical Practitioner (verdict issued 22 November 1322) On 11 August 1322, Jacoba F é licie was cited for illegall...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

One Year after Dobbs . . .

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When Women Became No Longer Human, Part 13: Women's Lives (and Deaths) One Year After Dobbs (24 June 2023) As if maternal mortality rate...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

More Bad News on Maternal Mortality (Back to the Future, Part 18)

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The  "U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis" (The Commonwealth Fund Report, 14 December 2022), Back to the Future, Part 18  A few days ag...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Sarah Stone, the "Complete Midwife"

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 Sarah Stone, midwife (letter dated 25 December 1736) The daughter of a midwife and the mother of a midwife, Sarah Stone was an English woma...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Edith Cavell: "No Hatred Or Bitterness"

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Edith Cavell, British Nurse (executed 12 October 1915) Edith Cavell was a British nurse arrested in Brussels and tried by a German militar...