Adele Marion Fielde: Feminist, Social Activist, Scientist (Women in Science)
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Adele Marion Fielde, born in 1839, was a teacher, an evangelist, a social activist, scientist, lexicographer, writer and lecturer. As an American missionary in China she became a local teacher and evangelist, struggling to reconcile her Baptist upbringing with her restless intellect. This book provides an in-depth biographical study of the life of this remarkable woman, exploring her impact on her contemporary society, and her abiding influence on the scientific and academic communities to the present day.
About the Author
Leonard Warren was born in Toronto, and received his BA and MD degrees at the University of Toronto. After an internship at teh Toronto General Hospital, he earned a PhD degree in biochemistry at MIT in Cambridge MA. He did research at the National Institute of Health, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, with Sabbatical years at the Pasteur Institute (Paris), and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (London). Recently, he had published a biography Joseph Leidy, the Last Man Who Knew Everything. He has completed a biography of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, and is presently writing the life of William Maclure, philanthropist, education, an 'father of American Geology'.
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