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.
(m. 1949, died)

Edward Kass
(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

Personal life

Honors

References

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