Ita Wegman belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Ita Wegman as Dutch physician.
Ita Wegman was born at Java in 1876. Her recorded nationality is Netherlands. She trained at University of Zurich.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are anthroposophy and pseudoscience.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Netherlands matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Ita Wegman died in 1943, aged 67. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: anthroposophy and pseudoscience
