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Manon S. Parry

The author is with the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Manon S. Parry, MA, MSc, Curator, Exhibition Program, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38, Room 1E-21, Bethesda, Maryland 20894 (e-mail: parrym@mail.nlm.nih.gov).

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Sara Jospehine Baker, MD, DrPH, was the first director of New York’s Bureau of Child Hygiene and an instrumental force in child and maternal health in the United States. A lesbian and a feminist, Baker was also a suffragist and a member of the Heterodoxy Club, a radical discussion group made up of more than 100 women, where she was known as "Dr Joe."¹ To succeed in the male-dominated world of public health administration, she minimized her femininity by wearing masculine-tailored suits and joked that colleagues sometimes forgot that she was a woman. Whether her sex was accounted for or . . . [Full Text]