In the history of medicine, Christiane Reimann is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Christiane Reimann as Danish nurse.
Christiane Reimann was born at Copenhagen in 1888. Her recorded nationality is Denmark.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Denmark matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Christiane Reimann died in 1979, aged 91. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
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