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Mary Edwards Walker: Civil War Surgeon & Medal of Honor Recipient. Edina, MN: ABDO Pub, 2010. ISBN 1-60453-966-6 OCLC 430736535; Graf, Mercedes, and Mary Edwards Walker. A Woman of Honor: Dr. Mary E. Walker and the Civil War. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 2001. ISBN 1-57747-071-0 OCLC 48851708; Hall, Richard C. Women on the Civil War ...
She also started a social network for pilots and other military personnel, politicians, and celebrities in California where she used her connections to recruit for war efforts and lobby for the creation of a women's naval reserve. [4] By the end of the war, Chung’s surrogate family had grown to more than 1,500.
Arrival of a Dutch Ship by Kawahara Keiga, depicting Ine, Taki, and Siebold at Dejima. Shiimoto Ine was born on 31 May 1827 [a] in the city of Nagasaki. [2] The surname Shiimoto came from a Japanese rendering [4] of the surname of her German father, the physician Philipp Franz von Siebold, who was living on Dejima, an artificial island off Nagasaki to where foreign trade was restricted during ...
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.
James Marion Sims (January 25, 1813 – November 13, 1883) was an American physician in the field of surgery.His most famous work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe complication of obstructed childbirth. [3]
Harriet Jones is a fictional character played by Penelope Wilton in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Having worked previously with lead writer and executive producer Russell T Davies, Wilton was keen to involve herself with his 2005 revival of Doctor Who after he sought to cast her.
At the same time, she gave lectures to women in the United States and England about the importance of educating women and the profession of medicine for women. [6] In the audience at one of her lectures in England, was a woman named Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , who later became the first woman doctor in England, in 1865.
This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]