Dr Christine Duffield
Christine Duffield’s research areas include acute care nursing as well as nursing and health services management.
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Mary Cover Jones
Mary Cover Jones was a well-known developmental psychologist specializing in child and adolescent development.
Phoebe Yates Levy Pember
US Civil War Confederate nurse who eventually ran the world’s largest hospital
Captain Sally Tompkins
US Civil War Confederate nurse who turned her Richmond mansion into Robertson Hospital, which had by far the lowest death rate of any facility in the North or South, even though physicians sent their worst cases to her.
Dr Margaret Floy Washburn
Advocate for equal educational opportunities for women who became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a doctoral degree in psychology.
Leta Stetter Hollingworth
An early feminist and active member of the Women’s Suffrage Party, Leta Stetter Hollingworth is best known for her landmark contributions to the psychology of women and to education of the gifted, the latter culminating in two books, Gifted Children (1926) and Children Above IQ 180 (1942).
Dr Mary Booth
Australian physician, educator and welfare worker
Susie Carson Rijnhart
1800s Canadian physician, medical missionary, and author
Patricia Anne Brennan
Australian Anglican missionary, campaigner, feminist theologian, forensic physician and media presenter
Sarah Forbes
1800s Canadian military nurse