| Description |
xvi, 225 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), facsimiles ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Footsteps in the sands of time: the early history of women in medicine -- 2. Elizabeth Blackwell: a great moral struggle -- 3. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: ' alone in the fortress' -- 4. 'The walls of the fort crumbled': Sophia Jex-Blake and the London School of Medicine for Women -- 5. Constance Stone: 'the first Australian lady doctor' -- 6. Pro feminis a feminis: The Queen Victoria Hospital for Women -- 7. A few good women: the founding doctors of the Queen Victoria Hospital -- 8. 'Gentlemen, the ladies have come to stay!”: women's striving to enter Australian universities |
| Summary |
“Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Constance Stone were women of vision and courage who gave honour to the field of medicine. It was the mid-nineteenth century and women were expected to remain at home, as wives and mothers. In Britain, the United States and Australia, teaching was the only respectable profession for women; even nursing was frowned upon. In this environment, three remarkable women rewrote the history books by becoming doctors in a world where women were not even allowed to vote.”--Book jacket |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references (pages 214-217) and index |
| Subject |
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, 1836-1917.
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Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910.
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Garrett, Elizabeth.
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Stone, Constance, 1856-1902.
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Physicians -- Biography.
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Women physicians -- Biography.
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Physicians, Women.
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History of Medicine.
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History, 19th Century.
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History, 20th Century.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2015463041 |
| ISBN |
9781925333053 |
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