In the history of medicine, Ljubica Luković is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Ljubica Luković as Serbian nurse and social worker.
Ljubica Luković was born at Pančevo in 1858. Her recorded nationality is Serbia.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are women's rights.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Serbia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Ljubica Luković died in 1915, aged 57. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: women's rights
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