16 Facts About Elizabeth Fee

Elizabeth Fee, known as Liz Fee, was a historian of science, medicine and health.

Elizabeth Fee was the Chief of the United States National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division.

Elizabeth Fee studied biology at the University of Cambridge and received a First.

Elizabeth Fee was awarded two master's degrees and obtained a PhD in the history and philosophy of science in 1978.

In 1974, Elizabeth Fee went to work at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where she worked until 1995.

Elizabeth Fee worked in departments including health humanities, international health, and health policy.

Elizabeth Fee was involved in the feminist movement and the Health Marxist Organisation.

Elizabeth Fee's work informed scholarship on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer health and wellbeing.

Elizabeth Fee produced almost thirty books and hundreds of articles, on topics as varied as the racialized treatment of syphilis, the history of the toothbrush, and bioterrorism.

In 1990, Elizabeth Fee became the editor of the history section of the American Journal of Public Health.

Elizabeth Fee became the Chief of the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine in 1995.

Elizabeth Fee oversaw moves to restructure the organisation around three sections: Rare Books and Early Manuscripts, Images and Archives, and Exhibitions.

Elizabeth Fee was appointed Chief Historian of the National Library of Medicine in 2011.

Shortly before her 2018 death, Elizabeth Fee retired to become an independent researcher.

Elizabeth Fee met her wife, Mary Garafolo, in the 1980s when Elizabeth Fee was based at Johns Hopkins.

Elizabeth Fee died due to complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on October 17,2018, in Bethesda.