Women of Psychology Reshaunda Davis PSY/310 March 3, 2013 Luvenia Jackson . Mamie Phipps was born April 18, 1917; Hot Springs is her birthplace. Her father was a Physician; his name was Harold H. Phipps, MD. Katie Florence was her mother’s name, she helped Mamie’s father with his practice. She went to segregated public schools.
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson For my independent reading project, I chose to read The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson. Anderson was born on October 23, 1961 in Potsdam, New York. Through her early life, Anderson struggled with emotional stress stemming from the divorce of her parents. This struggle played out in her adult life, as Anderson divorced her first husband, Greg Anderson, and consequently suffered from psychological trauma. Despite this, upon meeting and marrying her childhood sweetheart, Scot Larrabee, Anderson channeled her emotions into novels.
She lived there along with cousins, and ended marrying David Lacks, known as Day. Henrietta’s sister Glady disapproved Day and Henrietta’s marriage. They had 5 children, Lawrence, Lucille, David, Deborah, and Joseph. Henrietta began getting severe pain so she went to Johns Hopkins, one the best hospital in the nation and had a colored ward. As she lay on the operating table, a sample of her cancerous cervical tissue was take without with her knowledge or consent and given to Dr. George Grey the head of the tissue research.
Doctor Harold Shipman Doctor Harold Fredrick Shipman was born on the 14th January in 1946 on a council estate in Nottingham England and was the second of four children to Vera and Harold Shipman. He was particularly close to his mother who died of lung cancer when he was seventeen. Shipman witnessed his mother’s suffering from her terminal illness and the effects the home Administered morphine had on her .It is thought that this is what sparked his interest in medicine and what it could achieve. Harold Shipman studied medicine at Leeds school of medicine and graduated in 1970.He was Employed by Pontefract General Infirmary in Yorkshire and in 1974 he took his first position as General practitioner at the Abraham ormerod
Martin de Porres was that he was known for his unique healing powers. An example of one of his healing miracles is when an 87 year old lady from Paraguay, was given a few hours to live. She several severe intestinal blockage and had suffered a heart attack. All the doctors had given up on her and were already making arrangements for her funeral the following day. However her daughter and some friends were praying to St. Martin and said 15 decades of the Rosary, asking above all through the intercessions of St. Martin that her mother would still be alive by the time she herself could reach her mother’s home in Paraguay.
W;t is a play written by Margaret Edson. Edson’s play depicts Vivian Bearing, a 50-year-old English college professor, who was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic ovarian cancer. Edson had a brilliant way of describing Vivian’s experience with her battle through cancer. Edson’s work took place mostly in Vivian’s hospital room with her nurse, Susie Monahan. Susie played a vital role in taking care of Vivian throughout the play.
Blackwell opened her own dispensary in a single rented room, seeing patients three afternoons a week. The dispensary was formed into a corporation in 1854 and moved to a small house she bought on 15th Street. Her sister, Dr. Emily Blackwell who was the second woman that earned M.D. degree, joined her in 1856 and, together with another friend opened the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1857. By establishing this Infirmary, she offered a practical solution to one of the problems facing women who were rejected from internships elsewhere but determined to expand their skills as physicians.
Childhood acquaintances remember him as a “really weird kid” who would have mock services, most of them funerals, for small animals that he would “find” dead. By 1948, Jones’ parents separated and he moved to Richmond, Indiana with his mother. By now, Jones had become an enthusiastic reader “he studied Stalin, Marx, Gandhi, and Hitler, analyzing their collective strengths and weaknesses” ("The Life of Jim Jones", 2012). Jones began working at a hospital as an orderly during his senior year of high school and met a nurse, Marceline Baldwin. Jones graduated early, with honors, in 1949 and then married Marceline on June 12.
Mary Shelley was born in London in 1797 to intelligent parents. When Mary Shelley was 16 years old she decided to elope with a man named Percy Shelley who was a romantic poet. After a few years death had began to storm into her life, first she had a few miscarriages. Her only living child had also died and so did her half sister, and lastly Percy's first wife had died to suicide. When she went to vacation at Lord Byron's house, she and her colleagues would talk about different scientific things and the possiblitiy of reanimating the dead.
VISUAL ARTS TASK # 2 ANDY WARHOL PRACTICE: Historical Background: Andy Warhol was born on the 6th of August 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died on February 22nd, 1987, in New York City. Andy Warhol’s father (Ondrej) was a construction worker and his mother (Julia) was an embroiderer. They were both Slovakian immigrants and Bytazine Catholics who attended church regularly. Andy Warhol was bedridden for several months at 8 years of age after he contracted a potentially fatal disease known as Chorea. While Warhol was sick in bed, his mother (a very skillful artist) gave him some of his first drawing lessons.