Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: St Mary Magdalene

  • Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852)

    JMS Pearce Hull, England It is undeniable that computer science and technology play an important part in medical investigation and research, and universally in the transmission of information. Everyone remembers Charles Babbage, (1791-1871) (Fig 1) inventor of the computer and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, but an almost equally important figure has been largely overlooked.…