Women who gave birth, fertility and death a professional practice: Martha Ballard the Maine midwife whose diary survives, Jean Purdy the nurse and embryologist who worked on the first in vitro fertilisation and Cicely Saunders the founder of the modern hospice movement. A person belongs here when the cited article describes a midwife, a reproductive nurse or a hospice pioneer. It excludes nurses of the battlefield and the community.
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Marie Colinet (Wikipedia)
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was a midwife and surgeon who introduced the use of heat for dilating and stimulating the uterus during labor
Jesusita Aragón (Wikipedia)
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midwife and curandera
Cicely Saunders (Wikipedia)
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She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.
Jean Purdy (Wikipedia)
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Jean Marian Purdy (25 April 1945-16 March 1985) was a British nurse, embryologist and pioneer of fertility treatment.
Wikipedia: Martha Ballard
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Martha Moore Ballard (February 9, 1735, May 7, 1812) was an American midwife, healer, and diarist.
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