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Resources – Week 5

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These resources include books, podcasts, documentaries, movies, and TV shows that commemorate and encourage the study, observance, and celebration of the vital role women play in our lives.

  • Podcast-The Conflict Audible  
    • A show from Types & Symbols about Ellen G. White’s Conflict of the Ages series, produced by Ivan and Olivia Ruiz-Knott with help from Alex Prouty and Kevin Burton.
  • Book- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
    • When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned ​a curiosity ​of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
  • Movie/TV- Call the Midwife
    • Call the Midwife, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, tells colorful stories of midwifery and families in London’s East End. Inspired by the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife follows the nurses, midwives and nuns from Nonnatus House, who visit the expectant mothers of Poplar, providing the poorest women with the best possible care. Call the Midwife was created and written by Heidi Thomas.
    • Streaming on Netflix.
  • Documentary- Daring Women Doctors Physicians in the 19th Century
    • At this crucial time when women physicians and nurses are contributing significantly to our community’s health, this documentary provides a look at the challenging and illuminating history of 19th century women doctors. Hidden in American history, all women’s medical schools began to appear in the mid 19th century long before women had the right to vote or own property.
March 29, 2021
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