Women doctors: women physicians and women's medical education - the role of women in medicine.
A profile of Agnodice, gynecologist in Athens in the 4th century BCE.
Tenley Albright became an Olympic gold figure skater, despite contracting polio as a child.
Sister of suffrage activist Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman physician in Great Britain. She overcame much opposition to win her license.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was a pioneer female physician who practiced in London. This biographical sketch was published in 1911.
Virginia Apgar biography: profile of the woman who pioneered in newborn health.
Biography plus an index to other resources on this site about the first woman medical doctor of the modern era. From your About Women's History Guide.
Boston Female Medical College: A brief history of this early womens medical school, with links for more information.
Quotations from Anna Howard Shaw, a physician and minister who was also a prominent woman suffrage activist.
Biography of Sarah Ann Hackett Stevenson, pioneer woman physician.
Profile of Trotula or Trota, a medieval woman physician whose texts on gynecology and obstetrics were widely used for several hundred years in Europe.
Dr. Mary Walker was an unconventional woman. At the start of the Civil War, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker volunteered with the Union Army and adopted men's clothing. She was at first not allowed to work as a physician, but as a nurse and as a spy. She finally won a commission as an army surgeon. She was awarded the Medal of Honor for her service -- it was taken away in 1917 and finally restored in 1977.
An interesting insight into the view of women physicians as noted in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Biography of Emily Blackwell from the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Official NASA profile of Roberta Lynn Bondar, a Canadian astronaut, neurologist, and research scientist. As a payload specialist, Bondar conducted experiments aboard space shuttle Discovery in January, 1992.
No, not a woman who was a physician, but a book about diseases of women, published in 1724 and written by John Maubray. Eight pages from the document are included on this site -- click a thumbnail for a readable view of any of the pages.
An early woman physician and surgeon, Dr. Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier was inspired to atttend medical school by the example of Elizabeth Blackwell. She opened and supported the Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital for Women in New York, training more women for the medical profession.
Article from Minerva (Quarterly Report on Women and the Miiitary) on female doctors during World War I.
