medical history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/9/19
  

  The key to lowering America’s high rates of maternal mortality

  by Melissa Reynolds

  Health-care providers have forgotten the central lesson of two millennia of gynecology.

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• 3/31/19
  

  Elizabeth Blackwell, MD., Hero, Humanitarian, and Teacher

  by Charles F. Howlett

  She used her skills as a teacher to become not only the first American female physician but also its first female professor of medicine.

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• SOURCE: OZY
  2/26/19
  

  The Trailblazing Black Female Doctor That American History Forgot

  Rebecca Crumpler wrote one of the first American medical guides to offer advice for women and children.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/19
  

  Why it’s shocking to look back at med school yearbooks from decades ago

  by Elizabeth Evans

  They offer jaw-dropping examples of the sexism and racism that shaped professional cultures.

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  2/1/19
  

  In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox.

  In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox.

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• 1/29/19
  

  Were These Enslaved Women Grand Medical Experiments or Guinea Pigs?

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Behind the Sheet is a great success on a number of levels, not just medical, and a four star historical hit.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/27/19
  

  Quest to Solve Assassination Mystery Revives an AIDS Conspiracy Theory

  “We were at war,” said the former militia member, Alexander Jones. “Black people in South Africa were the enemy.”