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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain; James Barry, possibly the first female bodied doctor (assigned female at birth but living as a man) List of first female physicians by country; Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first African American female physician; State University of New York Upstate Medical University
This is a list of the first qualified female physician to practice in each country, where that is known. Many, if not all, countries have had female physicians since time immemorial; however, modern systems of qualification have often commenced as male only, whether de facto or de jure. This lists the first women physicians in modern countries.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist.She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon [1] and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. [2]
Lovisa Årberg (1801–1881) was the first female doctor and surgeon in Sweden; whereas, Amalia Assur (1803–1889) was the first female dentist in Sweden and possibly Europe. Marie Durocher (1809–1893) was a Brazilian obstetrician, midwife and physician. She is considered the first female doctor in Brazil and the Americas.
After studying at the New England Female Medical College, in 1864 she became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States. [a] Crumpler was also one of the first female physician authors in the nineteenth century. [4] In 1883, she published A Book of Medical Discourses. The book has two parts that cover ...
Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi (31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887) was the first Indian female doctor of western medicine. She was the first woman from the erstwhile Bombay presidency of British India to study and graduate with a two-year degree in western medicine in the United States. [1] She was also referred to as Anandibai Joshi and Anandi ...
Frances Elizabeth Hoggan (née Morgan; 20 December 1843 – 5 February 1927) [1] was a Welsh doctor and in 1870 became the first woman from the UK to receive a doctorate in medicine from any university in Europe. She was a pioneering medical practitioner, researcher and social reformer – and the first female doctor to be registered in Wales. [2]
She was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan. [1] She was the daughter of Kusumoto Taki, who was a courtesan from Nagasaki; and the German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold, who worked on Dejima, an island foreigners were restricted to during Japan's long period of seclusion from the world.