In the history of medicine, Geneviève Hennet de Goutel is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Geneviève Hennet de Goutel as French nurse.
Geneviève Hennet de Goutel was born at Paris in 1885. Her recorded nationality is France.
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.
Recognition followed: Order of the Cross of Queen Marie.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Geneviève Hennet de Goutel died in 1917, aged 32. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Order of the Cross of Queen Marie
