Dorothy M. Skinner (1930–2005)

Profile: Dorothy Wylie.

ambitious 18-year-old was ready to begin her nursing career, even though her father would have preferred her to do secretarial work. The problem was that the two hospitals to which she applied accepted nursing students at age 19, and she didn’t want to wait. Undeterred, the young woman further aggrieved her staunch Protestant family by enrolling at the Catholic St. Michael’s Hospital. That woma...

Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)

In 1942, the United States Supreme Court Case of Skinner v. Oklahoma ruled that states could not legally sterilize those inmates of prisons deemed habitual criminals. Skinner v. Oklahoma was about the case of Jack Skinner, an inmate of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, who was subject to sterilization [3] under the Oklahoma Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act of 1935. The ...

Response to Kreuter and Skinner.

I want to commend Matt Kreuter and Celette appropriately labeled ‘targeted’ interventions. Unfortunately, although we would now never call Skinner for their Editorial entitled ‘Tailoring: Clear Horizons a tailored program, in the evolution what’s in a name?’ (Kreuter and Skinner, 2000). of terminology, the titles of our papers stand. I could not agree more with their argument that I commend the...

Scientific essays on infectious diseases in honor of Dorothy M. Horstmann, M.D.

The pneumococcus and some men who came to Yale: the Dorothy M. Horstmann Lecture.

Yale has been fortunate indeed to have had Dorothy Horstmann as a member of its faculty for all but one of the last 50 years. It has had also the wisdom to take cognizance of her value as an individual and of her contributions to biomedical science and human welfare on two occasions in recent years. Her studies of poliomyelitis, hepatitis, and rubella, executed with perceptiveness, rigor and mo...