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Health Activism, American Feminist Jewish Women's …
WebAmerican women have been the “perennial health care reformers.” According to sociologist Carol Weisman, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Health Sciences and health policy …
Actived: Just Now
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Revisiting Medical History: The Women's Health Movement and …
WebWhen the COVID-19 outbreak became a pandemic in March 2020, historians and journalists alike drew comparisons between the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 and coronavirus. Considered the “ deadliest event in human history,” the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic killed at least 50 million people worldwide. Gina Kolata, New York Times …
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Meet the Hasidic Women Talking about Sex
WebAt 8:15 p.m. on a Sunday, I whipped open my laptop to learn about the basics of sexual health and care along with over 1,000 other Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jewish women. The moderators—among them sex therapist Rachel Hercman, LCSW, and physiatrist Atira Kaplan, MD—emphasized that the webinar was not Halakhic-based …
Nursing as a Female Profession in Palestine (1918-1948)
WebThe first nursing school in Palestine, the Hadassah School of Nursing, was founded in 1918. It hoped to revolutionize nursing education in the Yishuv by following the British and American models that treated nurses as professionals and academics.The women in Hadassah faced pushback from (male) doctors in the Yishuv, as well as from Hadassah …
Simone Veil Jewish Women's Archive
WebSimone Veil. Holocaust survivor Simone Veil was a pioneer in the French government and the European Union. As Minister of Health, she presented and successfully argued the law decriminalizing abortion in France. She was the first woman to preside over the European Parliament and the fifth woman to be interred in the Panthéon.
Grace Paley, 1922
WebBut even more, even more than I admired the stories, which was a lot, I admired Grace Paley's activism and her moral courage. Annelise Orleck is a professor of history at Dartmouth College. She is the co-editor of The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right, and the author of several books including Common Sense and a Little Fire: …
Lillian Wald Jewish Women's Archive
WebLillian Wald. Courtesy of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Lillian D. Wald was a practical idealist who worked to create a more just society. Her goal was to ensure that women and children, immigrants and the poor, and members of all ethnic and religious groups would realize America's promise of "life, liberty and the pursuit of
Women's Health in the Ghettos of Eastern Europe
WebWomen in the ghettos of Eastern Europe often outnumbered men, but within ghetto populations, women generally had lower mortality rates than men, perhaps due to their ability to adapt to their surroundings and use of public health services. However, women suffered uniquely; many women did not menstruate, suffered from symptoms caused by …
Eva Salber Jewish Women's Archive
WebEva Salber was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on January 5, 1916, the second of three daughters of Lithuanian parents, Moses and Fannie (Srolowitz) Salber. From the University of Cape Town Medical School, she received an M.B.Ch.B. (the equivalent of an M.D.) in 1938, a diploma in public health in 1945, and a doctorate in medicine (M.D.) in 1955.
Barren Women in the Bible Jewish Women's Archive
WebThe Hebrew Bible tells six stories of barren women: three of the four matriarchs (Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel); the unnamed wife of Manoah/mother of Samson; Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel; and the Shunnamite woman, an acolyte of the prophet Elisha. Each woman suffers a period of infertility, in some cases exacerbated by …
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