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In Oxford in the 1950s, there was a fantastic doctor, who was very unusual, named Alice Stewart.
在20世紀50年代的牛津，有一位相當優秀而又極不尋常的醫生，她叫Alice Stewart Alice。
And Alice was unusual partly because, of course, she was a woman, which was pretty rare in the 1950s.
她很不尋常，因為她是個女醫生，這在20世紀50年代很罕見。
And she was brilliant, she was one of the, at the time, the youngest Fellow to be elected to the Royal College of Physicians.
她非常厲害，是當時“皇家醫師學院”最年輕的學員之一。
She was unusual too because she continued to work after she got married, after she had kids,
她很不尋常還因為在她結婚生子后，還繼續工作，
and even after she got divorced and was a single rent, she continued her medical work.
甚至在她離婚成為單親媽媽之后，她仍在繼續著她的醫學工作。
And she was unusual because she was really interested in a new science,
她很不尋常還因為她對一門新的科學感興趣，
the emerging field of epidemiology, the study of patterns in disease.
當時新出現的流行病學，對于疾病規律的研究。
But like every scientist, she appreciated that to make her mark,
但跟每個科學家一樣，她知道為了出眾，
what she needed to do was find a hard problem and solve it.
她需要尋找到難題，然后解決它。
The hard problem that Alice chose was the rising incidence of childhood cancers.
Alice當時選擇的難題是童年期癌癥發生率的上升。
Most disease is correlated with poverty,
大多數疾病都跟貧窮有關，
but in the case of childhood cancers, the children who were dying seemed mostly to come from affluent families.
不過在童年期癌癥的問題上，這些垂死的孩子似乎大多數都來自富裕家庭。
So, what, she wanted to know, could explain this anomaly?
于是她想知道，怎樣才能解釋這樣一種特殊的現象呢?
