Marianne Charlotte Lindsten-Thomasson (6 October 1909 – 26 May 1979)[1] was a Swedish physician and a pioneer member of the Medical Women's International Association,[2] which was set up in 1919.
She attended Landskrona gymnasia[2] for her early education, graduating in 1927[3] and went on to finish her medical degree at the University of Lund (1930) thus becoming a general practitioner.
She wrote prescriptions for diaphragms unlike her colleague who believed that the relevant couples should “just desist,” and her actions thus probably prevented some women from having between ten and fifteen children, which was the norm at that time.
Instead she set up a small office in her home where she received young people who needed medical reports to gain their driver’s licenses.
She also ran a small clinic for alcoholics and a home for the elderly, and she served as the physician for the employees of the Swedish national railway.