Stone Babies

From  Authint Mail : An elderly Colombian woman has been found to have a 40-year-old fetus inside her abdomen.   Such a medical event is an ...

Tale of Trotula

Time has not been kind to the woman known as Trotula Plataerius, Trotula di Ruggiero or Trotula of Salerno. Was she the author of the famous...

Bald Barbie

From Good : Barbie has proven a controversial figure since her shapely beginnings in 1959, but as time and different civil rights movements ...

Indigenous “Grandmother” Shamans

From Republica : Hundreds gathered at Boudhanath Stupa on Sunday to welcome 13 indigenous “grandmother” shamans from across the world to Nep...

Obstetric Fistula - Ignored

From Science Blogs : It’s estimated that  up to 3.5 million women currently suffer from fistulas   , with somewhere from 50,000 to 130,000 n...

Hysteria or The Invention of the Vibrator

From the Examiner : Hysteria  deals with a rather dark period in women's history, and especially that of the medical profession. Set in ...

Dr. Salma Maqbool

From the News International : Dr. Salma Maqbool was the voice of the disabled in this country. After she was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmen...

Robin Oliveira - My Name Is Mary Sutter

From Buffalo Rising : This book is a good suggestion for reading on the occasion starting this year of the 150th anniversary of the Civil Wa...