Rima D. Apple is Hui Yan Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, China & Vilas Life Cycle Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Rima has published extensively in women’s history, the history of medicine and nursing, and the history of nutrition – Perfect motherhood: Science and childrearing in America, Rutgers University Press, 2006. In 2018 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of the History of Medicine.