Template:Did you know nominations/Katharine Cook

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:47, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Katharine Cook[edit]

Katharine Timpson Cook seated beside a patient convalescing in Mengo Hospital, Uganda, which Cook and her husband founded in 1900.
Katharine Timpson Cook seated beside a patient convalescing in Mengo Hospital, Uganda, which Cook and her husband founded in 1900.
  • ... that in the 1910s medical missionary Katharine Timpson Cook and her husband mistook yaws for syphilis and concluded that there was an epidemic of sexually transmitted disease in Uganda? Source: "the linkage between syphilis and immorality was present in missionary publications from the earliest observations of syphilis in Uganda, despite the frequent confusion of syphilis with yaws, a related disease transmitted by casual contact" https://www.jstor.org/stable/3174573
    • ALT1:... that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in Namirembe from 1918 but distrusted her students and censored their mail? Source: "Katherine Timpson Cook habitually censored the mail of students midwives at the MTS, weeding any letter that she saw as a "direct incitement to immorality" [1]

Converted from a redirect by Zeromonk (talk). Self-nominated at 08:22, 28 March 2019 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: No - I couldn't trace in the cited JSTOR article where it connects Katharine with the observation about the epidemic, following the main hook. Can you help me with that and provide a quote or page? As for ALT 1, this hook is fine.
  • Interesting: Yes
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Interesting subject about a courageous person. You might want to trim down the caption of the image a little, it is quite lengthy. Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 23:22, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Pending a response from the nominator with regard to the main hook, I am approving the ALT1 hook.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 21:30, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
@Farang Rak Tham: sorry for the slow reply, have been travelling with work - can't get at all of my books to check the first hook at the moment so please do go with second! Zeromonk (talk) 11:02, 9 April 2019 (UTC)