Women in medicine Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/category/women-in-medicine/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:12:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Bringing X-rays to the front https://bshm.org.uk/bringing-x-rays-to-the-front/ https://bshm.org.uk/bringing-x-rays-to-the-front/#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:12:31 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=17709 Edwin Aird describes how Marie Curie created radiological cars to take X-rays to the battlefront in Word War I. In 1914 at the beginning of the First World War, Paris was under threat of invasion from Germany. The situation was sufficiently alarming that the French Government moved to Bordeaux. And Marie Curie moved the precious […]

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]]> https://bshm.org.uk/bringing-x-rays-to-the-front/feed/ 0 How a pregnancy test saved the lives of a family in Nazi times https://bshm.org.uk/how-a-pregnancy-test-saved-the-lives-of-a-family-in-nazi-times/ https://bshm.org.uk/how-a-pregnancy-test-saved-the-lives-of-a-family-in-nazi-times/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:43:23 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=17512 Susanne Krejsa MacManus explains how pregnancy testing saved the life of a refugee woman biochemist and her family in the run-up to World War II. In the 1930s, the Institute of Animal Genetics at Edinburgh University was the only UK laboratory that ran pregnancy tests. Although the Aschheim-Zondek method invented in Berlin in the late […]

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