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Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [2] was an African-American woman [5] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [B] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific ...
The presence of women in medicine, particularly in the practicing fields of surgery and as physicians, has been traced to the earliest of history. Women have historically had lower participation levels in medical fields compared to men with occupancy rates varying by race, socioeconomic status, and geography.
The book was expanded into two volumes for a second edition published in 1960. [34] Taussig later became an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; she was promoted to full professor in 1959. At the time, she was only the second woman to reach full professor status at the university. [19]
A Book of Medical Discourses (1883) by Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (born Rebecca Davis, February 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895) was an American physician, nurse and author. 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 ...
Elizabeth Blackwell. Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an Anglo-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. [1] Blackwell played an important role in both the United States ...
Mary Putnam Jacobi. Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (née Putnam; August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an English-American physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. [1] She was the first woman admitted to study medicine at the University of Paris and the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college in the United States. [2][3]
Trota of Salerno (also spelled Trocta) was a medical practitioner and writer in the southern Italian coastal town of Salerno who lived in the early or middle decades of the 12th century. [1] She (called often Trotula) was one of a group of women physicians who studied in medieval Italy, at the Schola Medica Salernitana, the first medical ...
Emily Howard Stowe (née Jennings; May 1, 1831 – April 30, 1903) [1] was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada [2] and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. [3] Stowe helped found the women's suffrage movement in Canada and campaigned for the ...