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Author: Louisa Garrett Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-06-30
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1108079288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), first female physician in England; by her daughter, Louisa Garrett Anderson.
Author: Jo Manton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-07
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0429685629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1965. In 1865, a woman first obtained a legal qualification in this country as physician and surgeon. Elizabeth Garrett surprised public opinion by the calm obstinacy with which she fought for her own medical education and that of the young women who followed her. This full biography is based largely on unpublished material from the hospitals and medical schools where Elizabeth Garrett Anderson worked, and the private papers of the Garrett and Anderson families. This title will be of great interest to history of science students.
Author: Olivia Campbell
Publisher: Swift Press
Published: 2022-09-15
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1800752474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet the pioneering women who changed the medical landscape for us all For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionising the way women receive health care. In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness--a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs or be received in polite society. Motivated by personal loss and frustration over inadequate medical care, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a woman's place in the male-dominated medical field. For the first time ever, Women in White Coats tells the complete history of these three pioneering women who, despite countless obstacles, earned medical degrees and paved the way for other women to do the same. Though very different in personality and circumstance, together these women built women-run hospitals and teaching colleges - creating for the first time medical care for women by women. With gripping storytelling based on extensive research and access to archival documents, Women in White Coats tells the courageous history these women made by becoming doctors, detailing the boundaries they broke of gender and science to reshape how we receive medical care today.
Author: Lucy Pollard
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2020-04-24
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1783748842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book vividly presents the story of Margery Spring Rice, an instrumental figure in the movements of women’s health and family planning in the first half of the twentieth century. Margery Spring Rice, née Garrett, was born into a family of formidable female trailblazers – niece of physician and suffragist Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and of Millicent Fawcett, a leading suffragist and campaigner for equal rights for women. Margery Spring Rice continued this legacy with her co-founding of the North Kensington birth control clinic in 1924, three years after Marie Stopes founded the first clinic in Britain. Engaging and accessible, this biography weaves together Spring Rice’s personal and professional lives, adopting a chronological approach which highlights how the one impacted the other. Her life unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of the early twentieth century – a period which sees the entry of women into higher education, and the upheaval and societal upshots of two world wars. Within this context, Spring Rice emerges as a dynamic figure who dedicated her life to social causes, and whose actions time and again bear out her habitual belief that, contrary to the Shakespearian dictum, ‘valour is the better part of discretion’. This is the first biography of Margery Spring Rice, drawing extensively on letters, diaries and other archival material, and equipping the text with family trees and photographs. It will be of great interest to a range of social historians, especially those researching the birth control movement; female friendships, female philanthropists, and feminist activism in the twentieth century; and the history of medicine and public health.
Author: H. Bellis
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 1447498534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished as part of the ‘Women of Renown’ series, this book describes the life of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), the English physician and suffragist, and the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. It offers a poetic and insightful read for historians and those with an interest in Anderson, women’s history or biographical writing. Chapters: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - Adventurous Journey - Worthy Establishment - An Exciting Summer - Gradual Awakening - First Woman Doctor - Important Decision - At Work in the Wards - Undaunted by Setbacks - A Step forward - Joint Enterprise - Resolute Candidate - Honoured in France - Continental Adventure - Education Reform - A Happy Marriage - Happiness and Success - Student insurgents - Widespread interests - Elizabeth’s Children - Further Bitterness Aroused - Active Retirement - Pioneer Medical Unit. Using the original text and artwork, this vintage text is being republished in a high quality, modern and affordable edition, complete with a specially written concise biography.
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781855147461
DOWNLOAD EBOOK100 Pioneering Women presents a selection of images of remarkable women, who have defied the expectations of their gender and made extraordinary contributions to British life over the past four centuries. An introduction from the Gallery's Senior Curator of Eighteenth Century Collections considers the representation of women in the Collection and the efforts being made to redress historical imbalances through the acquisition of portraits of notable women from the last four centuries. Extended captions provide context about each sitter's life and work and remind us of the impact of women in spheres as diverse as politics, science and medicine, the arts, engineering and law. This book features some of the National Portrait Gallery's most famous sitters - Elizabeth I, writer and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, scientist Dorothy Hodgkin and architect and businesswoman Zaha Hadid - as well as paintings and photographs of lesser - known women whose influence is equally significant. A recently acquired portrait of anti-FGM campaigner and psychotherapist Leyla Hussein, a bromide cabinet card of Helena Normanton, the first woman to practise as a barrister in England, and a self-portrait by Angelica Kauffmann, one of the founding members of the Royal Academy, are also included in this highly illustrated publication.
Author: Wendy Moore
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2020-04-28
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1541672739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war and the Spanish flu, female doctors were restricted to treating women and children, Flora and Louisa's work was so successful that the British Army asked them to set up a hospital in the heart of London. Nicknamed the Suffragettes' Hospital, Endell Street soon became known for its lifesaving treatments. In No Man's Land, Wendy Moore illuminates this turbulent moment of global war and pandemic when women were, for the first time, allowed to operate on men. Their fortitude and brilliance serve as powerful reminders of what women can achieve against all odds.
Author: Elizabeth Crawford
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781903427125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sara Delamont
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0415623200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century. Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of "the lady" and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman’s cultural and physical world.
Author: Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-08-03
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 3752398663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: Women's Suffrage by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
