Medicine: Health, Doctors, Nurses, Midwives
Medicine and medical issues in women's history: a history of women in medicine and nursing, including pioneer women physicians and nurses, women's health issues through the ages, and discussions about how women have been viewed in medical history.
- Women's Health: Historical (12)
- Nurses and Nursing (56)
- Physicians: Women Doctors (17)
- Midwives (3)
- Psychology (6)
- Clara Barton (18)
- Elizabeth Blackwell (6)
- Dorothea Dix (13)
- Florence Nightingale (13)
- Disability Pioneers (12)
- Nobel Laureates - Medicine (10)
Elizabeth Blackwell
Biography plus an index to other resources on this site about the first woman medical doctor of the modern era.
Alessandra Giliani - Medieval Scientist
Alessandra Giliani was an early female scientist, known for her work tracing blood vessels.