| Description |
174 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Otto Hirschfeld Memorial Collection |
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Otto Hirschfeld Memorial Collection
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| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Inequality in the sexes -- 2 Women's former status -- 3 Victorian reform efforts -- 4 Queen Victoria's opposition -- 5 Melbourne University is perturbed -- 6 Seven women -- 7 The first lady doctors -- 8 Foundation of the Queen Victoria hospital for women and children - Part 1 -- 9 Queen Victoria hospital - Part 2 -- 10 Sydney's chancellor sponsors women -- 11 Sydney women on sufferance -- 12 Australia's first woman medical student -- 13 Women organise -- 14 Dr. Susie O'Reilly faces opposition -- 15 Dismissal of Dr. Jessie Aspinall -- 16 Vox Populi -- 17 Reinstatement -- 18 The Sydney medical mission -- 19 Rachel Forster hospital -- 20 Dr. Agnes Bennett, O.B.E. -- 22 Dr. Isabella Ross, O.B.E. and child welfare -- 23 Medical women's societies -- 24 Conclusion -- Biographical notes -- Apendicies 1 Medical women graduate practising in Australia from 1889 to 1900 -- 2 Medical women graduates practising in -- 3 Australian women graduates in Firsts -- 4 Medical women firsts -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This Mad Folly - The History of Australia's Pioneer Women Doctors traces the achievements of Australia's unhonoured and unsung pioneer women medical practitioners. They courageously pursued their medical courses in the face of organized and often bitter opposition, especially in Sydney and Melbourne. In 1891, Melbourne and Adelaide shared the honour of graduating the first women in Medicine in Australia - Dr. Clara Stone and Dr. Margaret Whyte (University of Melbourne) and Dr. Laura M. Fowler (University of Adelaide). Four other women had previously graduated overseas: Dr. Constance Stone (Canada, 1888), Dr. McCulloch Knight and Dr. Stella Taylor (London, 1889) and Dr. Dagmar Berne (London, 1891). Dr. McCulloch Knight died during post-graduate study and Dr. Taylor went to Boston, U.S.A., but the others returned to Australia to practise. Of the first group of Victorian medical women graduates, there are varied newspaper references, but the graduation at the University of Sydney of the first two New South Wales women, Dr. Iza Coghlan and Dr. Grace Robinson in 1893, were completely ignored. Mrs. Hutton Neve has filigently searched university records in Australia and contemporary women's magazines. Extensive correespondence has gleaned further information. By far the greatest amount of material for the history was collected by personal contact with the last few of the pioneer women graduates and those who knew them intimately. Dr. Clara Stone died in 1957 at teh advanced age of ninety-seven; others also lived until the 1950s and 1960s. A caluable historical background to women's involvement in Medicine in the ancient world through to Victorian times is provided by the author. She also discusses the suffragette movement in England and Australia which led to the re-emergence of women in the professions. The name of the Victorian pioneer medical women were closely woven with the story of the Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne and it is now a living memorial, the largest hospital of its kind in the British Commonwealth. The Rachel Forster Hospital, founded in Sydney, in 1922, followed an earlier Sydney Medical Mission which was opened in 1900 and closed in 1917. Both hospitals, since their foundation, have made an important contribution towards the improvement of medical care for women and children |
| Analysis |
Women doctors. Australia, 1889-1960 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Genealogy.
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Medicine -- Australia -- History.
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Physicians -- Australia -- Biography.
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Physicians -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
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Physicians -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
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Physicians -- Australia.
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Women physicians -- Australia -- History.
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Women in medicine -- History.
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Women in medicine -- Australia -- History.
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Women in medicine -- Australia.
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Women in medicine.
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Women physicians -- Australia -- Biography.
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Women physicians -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
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Women physicians -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
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Women physicians -- Australia.
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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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Physicians, Women -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Library of Australian History
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| LC no. |
81150927 |
| ISBN |
0908120362 |
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