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Amalie Kass

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Born
Amalie Moses

(1928-01-09)January 9, 1928
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DiedMay 19, 2019(2019-05-19) (aged 91)
KnownforWrote about obstetrics and midwifery
Amalie Kass
Born
Amalie Moses

(1928-01-09)January 9, 1928
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DiedMay 19, 2019(2019-05-19) (aged 91)
EducationWellesley College
Boston University
Known forWrote about obstetrics and midwifery
Spouse(s)
Malcolm Hecht Jr.
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(m. 1949, died)​

Edward Kass
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(m. 1975)​
Children5
RelativesAlfred H. Moses (brother)
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School

Amalie Moses Hecht Kass (born Amalie Moses; January 9, 1928 – May 19, 2019) was an American historian at Harvard Medical School.[1] She wrote about obstetrics and midwifery.

Amalie Moses was born on January 9, 1928, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Helene and Leslie Moses.[2][3] She grew up in Baltimore and attended Forest Park High School.[citation needed] She attended Wellesley College and graduated in 1949, with high honors in history, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her master's degree in education in 1963 from Boston University. She had two younger siblings, a brother Alfred H. Moses and a sister Claire Moses Lovett.[2][citation needed]

Books and articles

Author of two medical biographies

  1. Midwifery and Medicine in Boston: Walter Channing, M.D., 1786–1876, Northeastern University Press, 2002[4][5]
  2. Perfecting the World: The Life and Times of Thomas Hodgkin, MD (co-author with Edward Harold Kass), Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1988[6][7][8]

Author of numerous journal articles and encyclopedic entries including

  1. A Brief History of the Channing Laboratory
  2. My brother preaches, I practice Walter Channing, M.D., Antebellum Obstetrician
  3. Walter Channing Brief life of a nineteenth-century obstetrician 1786-1876

Professional work

Major volunteer activities

  • President of the Massachusetts Historical Society (2002 – ).
  • Lincoln Rural Land Foundation Trustee (200? - present)
  • Wellesley College Trustee (1992–2007)[9]
  • President of the Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development

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