with
Katie Hafner and Scott Baird
The diagnosis is gender bias and historical amnesia.
Dr. Dorothy Andersen solved a vexing medical mystery by identifying cystic fibrosis. But the mystery of her missing portrait remained unsolved.
This week we're featuring an episode from the Lost Women of Science podcast about a physician and pathologist who changed the way we understand acute lung and gastrointestinal problems in small children. But if she was such a medical heavyweight, why did her 1963 portrait disappear from Columbia University's Babies Hospital? The answer tells us something about the perils of memorialization.

Image courtesy Marina Munn for the Scientific American