Dr Alice Stewart is a British epidemiologist who has revolutionised the concept of radiation risk. This book tells the story of the woman who has proved a thorn in the side of the nuclear industry.'.
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Dr. Alice Stewart is a British epidemiologist who revolutionized the concept of radiation risk. Born in 1906, she is an outstanding scientist with more than 400 peer-reviewed papers to her name and someone who has taken courageous and effective stands on public issues. Yet hercontroversial work lies at the center of a political storm and so has only relatively recently begun to receive significant attention. For more than forty years, Stewart has warned that low-dose radiation is more dangerous than has been acknowledged. While teaching at Oxford in the 1950s she began research that led to the discovery that fetal x-rays double the child's risk of developing cancer. As a result, doctors no longer x-ray pregnant women. Two decades later--when she was in her seventies--she again astounded the scientific world with a study showing that the U.S. nuclear weapons industry is about twenty times more dangerous than safety regulations permit. The finding put her at the center of the international controversy over radiation risk. In recent years, she has become one of a handful of independent scientists whose work is a lodestone to the anti-nuclear movement. In 1990, the New York Times called her "perhaps the Energy Department's most influential and feared scientific critic."The Woman Who Knew Too Much" traces Dr. Stewart's life and career from her early childhood in Sheffield to her medical education at Cambridge to her research positions at Oxford and the University of Birmingham. The book joins a growing number of biographies of pioneering women scientists such as Barbara McClintock, Rosalind Franklin and Lise Meitner and will find a wide range of appreciative readers, including those interested in the history of science and technology and of the history of women in science and medicine. Activists and policy makers will also find the story of Alice Stewart compellingreading.\par\pard\s1\sa100\sb100\li0\plain\fs24 Gayle Greene is Professor of Women's Studies and Literature, Scripps College. She is the author of Changing the Story: Feminist Fiction and the Tradition; Doris Lessing: The Poetics of Change and coeditor of Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism.
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• Preface-- Biographies--
• Appendix I: List of Women by Occupation--
• Appendix II: Notable Events Related to Women Healers-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Women have always been healers; they have helped each other through the birthing process, nursed the sick and wounded, and sought cures for illnesses and injuries. This book summarizes the lives of 240 significant or representative women who have engaged in the "core" professions of mid-wifery, nursing, and medicine (exclusive of psychiatry), and whose careers were primarily spent in the United States and Canada, from colonial times to the present. For the high school or college student, it will serve as an introduction to the lives of these healers; some students may be inspired to do further research on them or may be inspired to become healers themselves. Women's Studies scholars, biographers, and historians of science, medicine, or nursing, will find the biographies useful starting points for more in-depth research. Each biography provides references for further reading and study.
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• Chronology: The Life of Anna Nikolaevna Zhukova-Bek Introduction: A Journey to Siberia Anne D. Rassweiler
• 1. Growing Up in the Transbaikal
• 2. Student Life in St. Petersburg and France
• 3. New Beginnings: Nerchinsk Zavod, St. Petersburg, Aksha
• 4. Making a Career: Chita in War and Revolution
• 5. The Highs and Lows of Working Life: Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk.
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• List of Illustrations Foreword Adele M. Lindenmeyr Chronology: The Life of Anna Nikolaevna Zhukova-Bek Introduction: A Journey to Siberia Anne D. Rassweiler
• 1. Growing Up in the Transbaikal
• 2. Student Life in St. Petersburg and France
• 3. New Beginnings: Nerchinsk Zavod, St. Petersburg, Aksha
• 4. Making a Career: Chita in War and Revolution
• 5. The Highs and Lows of Working Life: Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk Appendix: "Labor Education and the Montessori System": Summary of a Lecture Anna Nikolaevna Bek Notes Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading Index.
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"The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor" by Anna Bek (1869-1954) yields rich insights into the lives of a generation of Russian women who lived at a time of revolutionary change, extraordinary challenges, and unprecedented opportunities. Written in a lively and compelling style, Anna Bek's memoir reveals not only the experiences but also the motives and values of women who sought education, independence, and self-sufficiency, the obstacles they encountered, and the influences of other woman and men on their lives. This engrossing memoir also engages the special context of Siberian geography and history - the vast distances and isolation, the heterogeneous population of settlers, exiles, and convicts, the closeness and interdependence of families and communities, and the deep appreciation of nature. This book offers a rewarding excursion into Siberian social history and an intimate acquaintance with two exceptional individuals of great charm and courage - Anna Bek and her American editor, Anne D. Rassweiler.
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• Introduction
• PART 1: RELIGION AND MEDICINE
• 1. "The Medical Lady Missionary"
• 2. Living Their Religion
• 3. Where Womanhood and Childhood Meet
• PART 2: A SEARCH FOR BELONGING
• 4. "A Noble Profession"
• 5. "The Beginning of a New Era"
• 6. "The Ministering Angel of Chinatown"
• 7. A Sister Lesbian?
• PART 3: ORIENTALIZED MOTHERHOOD
• 8. Becoming Mom Chung
• 9. A Model Family at War
• 10. Creating WAVES
• 11. "I'll Wait on You Forever" Epilogue: "There Will Never Be Another Mom Chung" Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index.
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During World War II, Mom Chung's was the place to be in San Francisco. Soldiers, movie stars, and politicians gathered at her home to socialize, to show their dedication to the Allied cause, and to express their affection for Dr. Margaret Chung (1889-1959). The first known American-born Chinese female physician, Chung established one of the first Western medical clinics in San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1920s. She also became a prominent celebrity and behind-the-scenes political broker during World War II. Chung gained national fame when she began 'adopting' thousands of soldiers, sailors, and fly boys, including Ronald Reagan, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. A pioneer in both professional and political realms, Chung experimented in her personal life as well. She adopted masculine dress and had romantic relationships with other women, such as writer Elsa Gidlow and entertainer Sophie Tucker. This is the first biography to explore Margaret Chung's remarkable and complex life. It brings alive the bohemian and queer social milieus of Hollywood and San Francisco as well as the wartime celebrity community Chung cultivated. Her life affords a rare glimpse into the possibilities of traversing racial, gender, and sexual boundaries of American society from the late Victorian era through the early Cold War period.
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On 25 January 1849, Punch responded to an event that took place in upstate New York with a rhyme about 'excellent Miss Blackwell!'. On that day, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first modern woman to earn a degree from a recognised medical college. For an immigrant Englishwoman with neither money nor connections this was no mean achievement. But Elizabeth was a determined woman, who did not flinch from difficult issues. As a 'doctress', she addressed taboo subjects such as venereal disease, prostitution and masturbation. Deciding early on not to get married, she still sought a family and in 1854 adopted an orphan. Yet, despite her own achievements and close friendships with many of the leaders of the Suffragist movement, she discouraged her own daughter's ambitions. Conversely, her friendship with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, inspired Anderson to become England's first woman doctor. With friends such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Kingsley, George Eliot and an argumentative relationship with Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Blackwell was one of the foremost women of her time. This new biography uncovers the life of this remarkable, complex, controversial and pioneering woman doctor whose vision and sheer guts in the face of enormous odds changed social history.
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Recounts the experiences of Dr. Mary Babcok Atwater, a medicine woman who began a successful medical practice in America's frontier west in the 1890s.

• Early years
• Earning money for study
• Study in America
• Study in Europe
• Practical work in America
• England revisited
• Return to England.

Here is the story of Elizabeth Blackwell's dedicated, groundbreaking struggle to become a doctor, eloquently told in her own words. Full of insightful reflections on the philosophy of medicine, women's education, the evils of slavery, and the nature of American society in the nineteenth century, this unique autobiography will interest scholars and students of women's studies and the history of science.
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