Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Women in Medicine

Moustapha Abousamra
Women surgeons

Victoria Bates
Elizabeth Casson

Arpan K. Banerjee
Book review: A History of Women in Medicine and Medical Research
Book review: Meeting the Challenge: Top Women in Science

Cristóbal S. Berry-Cabán
Katherine Anne Porter and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

Bojana Cokić
Women in medicine in Serbia

Elizabeth A. Coon and Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
Book review: The Doctors Blackwell

Sherrie Dulworth
The book that galvanized a health care transformation

Howard Fischer
Dr. Joycelyn Elders: An unwelcome prophet
Alexa Canady, MD: The first Black woman neurosurgeon

James L. Franklin
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012): “Chance favors the prepared mind”

Bert Hansen
Medical history on the silver screen: Hollywood’s ten-minute films about medical heroes

Natalie Horakova
Dr. Lucy Hobbs Taylor, DDS

Anne Jacobson
Alice Hamilton: physician and scientist of the dangerous trades

Angela Ann Joseph
Ida Sophia Scudder

Jill Kar
Books, bangles, and bravado

Katie King
Mary Josephine Hannan: portrait of a pioneer

Cynthia Kramer
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska: immigrant, physician, teacher

William Leeming
Madge Thurlow Macklin: medical genetics

Kevin R. Loughlin
Frances Oldham Kelsey: A medical profile in courage

Byron McGaffey and Ann McGaffey
Hazel Louise McGaffey, MD

Edward McSweegan
Dr. Avery, Medicine Woman
Mary Niles and the Canton rats

Geraldine Miller
Metrodora: Egyptian physician, midwife, and surgeon new

K.S. Mohindra
Mary Poonen Lukose

Sara Nassar
What did Dorothy Reed see?

Maja Nowakowski
Rosalyn Yalow: opinions and actions

Yasaswi Paruchuri
Virginia Apgar: our Jimmy

JMS Pearce
Elizabeth Blackwell, MD
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and smallpox

Colin Phoon
Helen Taussig: founder and mother of pediatric cardiology

Sue Reeves
Cicely Williams and kwashiorkor

Vicent Rodilla and Alicia López-Castellano
Salernitan women

Terri Sinnott
One woman’s journey for a tuberculosis cure

Mariel Tishma
Clara Maass, yellow fever, and the early days of ethical medical testing
The life of a trailblazer: Ogino Ginko, one of the first female doctors in Japan
Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte: tradition, assimilation, and healing

Meg Vigil-Fowler
Dr. Rebecca Cole and racial health disparities in nineteenth-century Philadelphia

Göran Wettrell
Maude Abbott and the early rise of pediatric cardiology

Vignettes
Lady Mary Wortley Montague: variolation against smallpox
Mary Putnam Jacobi, advocate for women in society and medicine
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, first British woman doctor
Dorothy Russell: The complete pathologist
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: A trailblazer for female surgeons (Shabnam Parsa, Leshya Bokka, and Liam Butchart)