Template:Did you know nominations/Katharine Cook
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:47, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
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Katharine Cook
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Katharine Timpson Cook seated beside a patient convalescing in Mengo Hospital, Uganda, which Cook and her husband founded in 1900.
... that in the 1910s medical missionary Katharine Timpson Cook and her husband mistook yaws for syphilis and concluded that there was an epidemic of sexually transmitted disease in Uganda?Source: "the linkage between syphilis and immorality was present in missionary publications from the earliest observations of syphilis in Uganda, despite the frequent confusion of syphilis with yaws, a related disease transmitted by casual contact" https://www.jstor.org/stable/3174573- ALT1:... that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in Namirembe from 1918 but distrusted her students and censored their mail? Source: "Katherine Timpson Cook habitually censored the mail of students midwives at the MTS, weeding any letter that she saw as a "direct incitement to immorality" [1]
Converted from a redirect by Zeromonk (talk). Self-nominated at 08:22, 28 March 2019 (UTC).
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- I couldn't trace in the cited JSTOR article where it connects Katharine with the observation about the epidemic, following the main hook. Can you help me with that and provide a quote or page? As for ALT 1, this hook is fine. - Interesting:
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Interesting subject about a courageous person. You might want to trim down the caption of the image a little, it is quite lengthy. Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 23:22, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
- Pending a response from the nominator with regard to the main hook, I am approving the ALT1 hook.
--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 21:30, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Farang Rak Tham: sorry for the slow reply, have been travelling with work - can't get at all of my books to check the first hook at the moment so please do go with second! Zeromonk (talk) 11:02, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- Pending a response from the nominator with regard to the main hook, I am approving the ALT1 hook.
