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From Marie Curie, the most famous, to Augusta Klumpke, through Margaret Buckley, we invite you to discover women, often forgotten, who are part of the history of medicine. In patriarchal societies that do not favor women’s interest in medicine, some have to disguise themselves as men to pursue their passion, while others are called witches.
Marie Curie. © Bettmann Archive – Bettmann
Who are these women whose history we know little about? How do they manage, in decades, to find their place in a world that is only male? What medical advances have they contributed to?
- Professor Jean-Noël Fabiani-Salmon, co-director studying the history of medicine at the Paris-Cité Faculty of Medicine. Former head of the cardiac surgery department at the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital. The author of the work Hippocrates’ sisters. These women made medicine historypublished by Les Arènes and 30 New Classic Stories that make medicine in Plon.
- Laurence Plévert, he won of History of Medicine Prize awarded by the Academy of Medicine for his work Augusta Klumpke, medical pioneerpublished by Editions Les Pérégrines.
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