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Women in STEM: Trota of Salerno

12th June 202210th January 2023 / historicallywoman / 2 Comments

In New York, there stands a statue of J. Marion Sims, a man known as the ‘father of gynaecology’. Asks historian Monica H. Green — ‘why the field of women’s medicine has a father but no mother’. Well, perhaps there was one - enter Trota of Salerno.

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