Dr. John A. Talbott, Champion of Care for the Mentally Ill, Dies at 88

Dr. John A. Talbott, a psychiatrist who championed the care of vulnerable populations of the mentally ill, especially the homeless — many of whom were left to fend for themselves in the nation’s streets, libraries, bus terminals and jails after mass closures of state mental hospitals — died on Nov. 29 at his home in […]

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Philip L. Sherman, Who Circumcised Thousands of Babies, Dies at 67

Armed with only a scalpel, a clamp and a metal probe, Philip L. Sherman would routinely carry out his surgical mission in about 15 seconds, leave in as little as 10 minutes and hotfoot it to his car, which was probably parked illegally but perhaps spared a ticket by the inspired placard on his windshield: […]

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Dr. Susan Love, Surgeon and Breast Health Advocate, Dies at 75

Dr. Love is survived by her wife, Dr. Helen Sperry Cooksey, a surgeon, whom she married in San Francisco in 2004 during the brief period when same-sex marriages were being performed there, before a California ballot proposition made them illegal in 2008. Also surviving is their daughter, Katie Patton-LoveCooksey, whose adoption by her two mothers […]

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Peg Yorkin, Who Helped Bring the Abortion Pill to the U.S., Dies at 96

Peg Yorkin, a feminist activist and philanthropist who as a founder of the Feminist Majority, a national women’s rights organization, campaigned to bring mifepristone, the abortion pill, to the United States and to increase the number of women in political office, died on Sunday at her home in Malibu, Calif. She was 96. The cause […]

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Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, Reassuring Best-Selling Author, Dies at 88

Rabbi Harold Kushner, a practical public theologian whose best-selling books assured readers that bad things happen to good people because God is endowed with unlimited love and justice but exercises only finite power to prevent evil, died on Thursday in Canton, Mass. He was 88. His death, in hospice care, was confirmed by his daughter, […]

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Overlooked No More: Violet Piercy, Pioneering Marathoner

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. One Saturday in March 1935, Violet Piercy left her home in Clapham, in southwest London, and headed across the Thames and up to Highgate, a neighborhood in the north of the city. […]

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Helen Murray Free Dies at 98; Chemist Developed Diabetes Test

Helen Murray Free, a chemist who ushered in a revolution in diagnostic testing when she co-developed the dip-and-read diabetes test, a paper strip that detected glucose in urine, died on Saturday at a hospice facility in Elkhart, Ind. She was 98. The cause was complications of a stroke, her son Eric said. Before the invention […]

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