March 2018
Source: American Association for the History of Medicine
First class of women accepted to Harvard Medical School, 1945.
The Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation is pleased to provide one $5,000 grant to support travel, lodging, and incidental expenses for a flexible research period between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.
Foundation Fellowships are offered for research related to the history of women to be conducted at the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Preference will be given to projects that engage specifically with the history of women physicians, other health workers, or medical scientists; proposals on the history of women’s health issues will also be considered. Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2018.
Related stories:
Activism in the history of medicine – An interview with Dr Susan M. Reverby, Professor Emerita in Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College.
Zika and Aedes aegypti: new and old challenges – The current issue of HCSM (vol.24 no.4 Oct./Dec. 2017) features a debate about the zika epidemic, which came to the fore when the disease raised a series of concerns related to birth defects.
A film about women – In this touching documentary, Debora Diniz shows the dark reality of pregnant women expecting babies with microcephaly.
A vast collection on Brazilian health and science – Lee R Hiltzik, Assistant Director at the Rockefeller Archive Center provided details about the collection and explained how it can be useful to Brazilian researchers of the history of medicine and science.
La salud pública y la enfermería en la Argentina – El libro de Karina Ramacciotti, Carolina Biernart y Juan Manuel Cerdá reúne los principales debates en la historia social de la salud y la enfermedad en Argentina.
Related articles in Manguinhos:
Fiquepron, Maximiliano Ricardo. Estado y profesiones de la salud en Argentina: la enfermería en el siglo XX. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2016, vol.23, no.3, p.907-910. ISSN 0104-5970
Vessuri, Hebe M. C. Enfermería de salud pública, modernización y cooperación internacional: El proyecto de la Escuela Nacional de Enfermeras de Venezuela, 1936-1950. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2001, vol.8, no.3, p.507-539. ISSN 0104-5970
Biernat, Carolina and Ramacciotti, Karina. La protección a la maternidad de las trabajadoras en Argentina: aspectos legales y administrativos en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2011, vol.18, suppl.1, p.153-177. ISSN 0104-5970
Biernat, Carolina and Ramacciotti, Karina. La tutela estatal de la madre y el niño en la Argentina: estructuras administrativas, legislación y cuadros técnicos (1936-1955). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2008, vol.15, no.2, p.331-351. ISSN 0104-5970
