Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Virginia Apgar

  • Book review: Female innovators who changed our world: how women shaped STEM

    Arpan K. Banerjee Solihull, England, United Kingdom   Cover of Female innovators who changed our world: how women shaped STEM by Emma Shimizu. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) play an important part in our lives. The march of scientific and technological progress continues unabated and is responsible for revolutionizing life in the modern world.…

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    WOMEN IN MEDICINE Published in November, 2019 H E K T O R A M A     .     ALICE HAMILTON     The squalid streets of working-class Chicago in the late nineteenth century would have been something of a shock to the girl who grew up in a sheltered but educated household…