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Activists and students shout slogans at a protest rally condemning a brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old post-graduate trainee (PGT) doctor in Kolkata, India on Aug. 14. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Rape and murder of doctor sparks nationwide protests in India

The rape and murder of a medical trainee in a hospital in Kolkata, India has sparked a string of nation-wide protests on the eve of India’s 78th anniversary of Independence from British occupation.
The medical school of Salerno as it appears in a miniature of Avicenna’s Canon. The image represents the legendary story of Robert, Duke of Normandy. Mortally wounded by an arrow, he was heroically saved by his wife who sucked out the poison as prescribed by the physicians of Salerno. Wikipedia

How the Middle Ages’ female doctors were consigned to oblivion

During the Middle Ages, women were steadily excluded from both the practice and the study of medicine by an overwhelmingly male-dominated, institutional and hierarchical system.

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