Dale DeBakcsy
Sex After Sixty: The Geriatric Gynecology of Anna Kleegman Daniels.
Sex after menopause. Drug addiction. Abortion. In the early to mid-twentieth century, to be seen as casting an understanding eye on any...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- May 12
The Many Wars of Florence Nightingale.
Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 16
Broken Hearts and Nuclear Secrets: Marie Maynard Daly, America's First Black Woman Chemist.
The years of the Second World War gifted to American feminism one of its most enduring icons in the form of Rosie the Riveter. She was...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Feb 27
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
- Feb 19
Taking the Wheel: Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and the CRISPR-Cas9 Revolution in Gene Editing.
Over the course of the last two decades, humanity has taken its first quiet steps from being the blind victims of genetic-molecular...
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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 25, 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
- Nov 26, 2023
Capping the Chromosome: Elizabeth Blackburn and the Discovery of Telomerase
Telomerase is one of those enzymes which just won’t let you come to a settled opinion. When it runs wild, it promotes cancer. But it...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Nov 23, 2023
Steering the Future of Women in Science: The Institutional Wizardry of Microbiologist Rita Colwell.
One of the exciting and daunting things about doing science in the Twenty-First century is the sheer number of competencies it demands. ...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Oct 24, 2023
Born Not Taught: Marian Koshland and the Source of Antibody Variation.
The human body is a truly wonderful place to live, if you can fit in it. It's warm and protected and, because humans are such clever at...
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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 5, 2023
Lavinia Waterhouse: Gold Rush Physician, Frontier Suffragette
Lavinia Waterhouse (1809–1890) lived at the intersection of a tangle of ideas that, to the twenty-first-century mind, have no business...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
A Doctor at Sky’s Edge: Susan Anderson and the Practice of Medicine on America’s Last Frontier
Seventy miles west of Denver, in a small town nestled 8,574 feet above sea level there rests the town of Fraser. Today an enclave of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
A Healer at the Fringe of Civilization: The Siberian Odyssey of Doctor Anna Bek
It is the early 1870s and we are heading into the mining town of Gornyi Zerentui, located in the mountainous Transbaikal region on the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
Trota of Salerno and the Problem of Medieval Women’s Medicine
Imagine it is the twelfth century, and you have woken up experiencing some trouble breathing. Fortunately, you have the financial...
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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 26, 2023
Lymph, There it is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research
For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognised in their time and...
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