EAN: 9783030165635

SPRINGER BIOGRAPHIES EDITH AND FLORENCE STONE...

This book explores the lives and achievements of two Irish sisters  Edith and Florence Stoney 
who pioneered the use of new electromedical technologies  especially X-rays but also
ultraviolet radiation and diathermy. In addition  the narrative follows several intertwined
themes as experienced by the sisters during their lifetimes. Their upbringing  influenced by
their liberal-minded scientist father  set the tone for both their lives. Irish independence
fractured their family heritage. Their professional experiences  fulfilling for Florence as a
qualified doctor but often frustrating for Edith as a Cambridge-educated scientist  mirrored
those of other aspiring women during this period  when the suffragist movement expanded and
women's lobby groups were formed. World War I created an environment in which their unusual
specialist knowledge was widely needed  and the sisters' war experiences are carefully examined
in the book. But ultimately this is the extraordinary story of two independent but closely
bonded sisters and their abiding love and support for one another.

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