Cristian Réka Mónika, Kérchy Anna (eds)

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

A Head Physician at the Forefront of the Battle Against Morbus Hungaricus

In 1924, on the recommendation of Korányi, Barát took up her post in the citadel of Hungary’s defense against tuberculosis, the Erzsébet Sanatorium—the predecessor of what is known today as the Korányi National Institute of Pulmonology. She started on the job in the midst of “wretchedness dreaming” in the working-class districts, to quote the poet Endre Ady, at a time when hospitals were rarely inclined to hire female physicians. In those days, most of society still concurred with the views of the Piarist monk, philosopher, professor, and culture politician Gyula Kornis (1885–1958), who questioned the aptitude of women for the medical profession in a volume of studies entitled Kultúra és politika (Culture and Politics) published in 1928.

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2023

ISBN: 978 963 454 927 7

Művelődéstörténet Idegen nyelvű

In this sequel to the first volume of Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education published in 2022, editors Réka M. Cristian and Anna Kérchy present the portraits of twenty-two prominent Hungarian women scholars, scientists and educators who made pioneering contributions to Hungary’s scientific achievement over the centuries. Some of the women introduced in the sixteen chapters come from traditional disciplines such as pharmacy, medicine, historiography, engineering, mathematics, archeology, psychology, and philosophy, while others furthered on fields not necessarily viewed, especially at the time, as science or scholarship proper, but which are nonetheless deeply intellectual, such as physical, special needs, reform, or music education, feminism, and historic preservation. The book offers a bird’s eye view summary of the accomplishments reached and challenges faced by these exceptional Hungarian female academics and intellectuals.

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