Journalist Lydia Reeder's "The Cure for Women"

Booktalk with Diana Korte · Jan 3, 2025 · 9m

Host Diana Korte speaks with author Lydia Reeder whose research and writing brings to light the stories of little-known or forgotten pioneers in their professions and daily lives. Her newest book is “The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever." It shines a light on the first women doctors in America, especially Mary Putnam Jacobi, MD (1842-1906), who altered the course of American history while uplifting the lives of women. She was one of the most important physicians, female or male, of the nineteenth century. Her…