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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.
Throughout European history, women were taught knowledge of healing, most often from childhood. [6] When medicine as a profession in 13th century Europe, women healers started to be pushed from view. [24] Licenses began to be required to practice medicine, but even so, this was only enforced for some clienteles. [25]
1922. 1922. Vietnam. Henriette Bùi Quang Chiêu [129] 1934. Yemen. Claudie Fayein [130][131] (born in France) 1955. Nepal: Bethel Fleming[132][133] (born in the U.S.) is considered the first Western female physician to practice in the country.
Mamie Odessa Hale was nurse and teacher of midwives in Arkansas. [91] Beatrix McCleary Hamburg in 1948 became the first African American woman to graduate from the Yale School of Medicine. [92] Jean L. Harris in 1955 is the first African American woman to earn a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia.
Occupation. Writer, suffragist. Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead (April 6, 1867 – January 1, 1941) was a pioneering feminist and obstetrician [1] who promoted the role of women in medicine. She wrote A History of Women in Medicine: From the Earliest of Times to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century in 1938. She was born in Danville, Quebec, Canada ...
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 ...
Women's medicine in antiquity. Marble relief from Ostia Antica showing a childbirth scene. Childbirth and obstetrics in classical antiquity (here meaning the ancient Greco-Roman world) were studied by the physicians of ancient Greece and Rome. Their ideas and practices during this time endured in Western medicine for centuries and many themes ...
Walsh, James J. (2008) [1911 (Fordham University Press)]. "Medieval Women Physicians". Old Time Makers of Medicine: The Story of the Students and Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages. Lethe Press. pp. 135–150. Yount, Lisa (2007). A to Z of Women in Science and Math (Rev. ed.). New York: Infobase Pub.