Gender and Cancer in England, 1860-1948 by Ornella Moscucci

Author:Ornella Moscucci
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

Fig. 5.2Mme Curie’s legacy: Queen Mary visits the Marie Curie Hospital accompanied by Eve Curie, Henri Coutard and Viscountess Runciman, 1937 (Photographers: Valentine. Courtesy of the Medical Women’s Federation)

Why were the doctors of the Marie Curie proving so much more successful than male colleagues? The question was asked by Lord Horder, the eminent physician, at a fund-raising event hosted in 1934 by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. Lord Horder conceded that there were spheres in medicine, particularly in therapeutics, in which women showed an exceptional bent. Radium therapy was one of them: ‘whether it was that women were more painstaking, or were more accustomed to attention to detail as part of their daily routine’, he reportedly said,the fact remained that in this particular branch of treatment they did excel, and there was definite evidence that they got their results, not by the application of different principles from others, but by the more careful application of the same principles. 91

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