Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century

Volume III: Global Experiences

Claire Brock

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781032207933
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040016152
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

This volume explores medical women as a global phenomenon during the long nineteenth century. The volume considers, firstly, how especially British medical women travelled internationally to treat patients who, for reasons of religious, cultural, or social beliefs, were reluctant to seek treatment from male doctors. In this instance, missionary zeal was balanced with concern for women's health and welfare. Secondly, the volume includes texts written by those who qualified as medical women and practised either in their national context or those educated abroad, who then returned home to pursue their careers. The latter makes more widely available works by women of colour, including, for example, the African American woman doctor, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, and Indian female medical practitioner, Rukhmabai. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• General Editors’ Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology: Selected Key Dates
• General Introduction
• Introduction
• 1 A Practical Illustration of ‘Woman’s Right to Labor’; or a Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia
• 2 Medical Women for India
• 3 Excerpt from A Book of Medical Discourses – In Two Parts
• 4 Excerpt from Memoirs of an Arabian Princess: An Autobiography
• 5 ‘Indian Child Marriages: An Appeal to the British Government’
• 6 The Medical Education of Women
• 7 ‘Reminiscences of Medical Study in Europe’
• 8 Photograph of the Taylor Lane Hospital Operating Room (Dated 1899), Dr Matilda A. Evans Collection, National Museum of African American History and Culture
• 9 ‘Dr Lilian Violet Cooper’
• 10 ‘Something about Medical Work in Afghanistan’
• 11 ‘Notes from my Case-Book, 1902’
• 12 ‘Medical Work in Natal’
• 13 ‘Through Siberia’
• 14 ‘Australian Experiences’
• 15 Reports of Military Observers Attached to the Armies in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War (October 1 1906)
• 16 ‘Europe and North Africa’
• 17 Excerpts from A Lady Doctor in Bakhtiari Land
• 18 Excerpts from War and Women, From Experience in the Balkans and Elsewhere
• 19 Excerpts from The Red Cross in War: Women’s Part in the Relief of Suffering
• 20 ‘Experiences with a Red Cross Hospital in Belgium’
• Bibliography
• Index