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A Book of Medical Discourses (1883) by Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (born Rebecca Davis , February 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895) was an American physician, nurse and author. After studying at the New England Female Medical College , in 1864 she became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United ...
African-American women have been practicing medicine informally in the contexts of midwifery and herbalism for centuries. Those skilled as midwives, like Biddy Mason, worked both as slaves and as free women in their trades. Others, like Susie King Taylor and Ann Bradford Stokes, served as nurses in the Civil War.
Joan Refshauge (1906–1979) was the first female doctor appointed to Papua New Guinea by the Australian government in 1947. [147] [148] Henriette Bùi Quang Chiêu (1906–2012) was the first female doctor in Vietnam. [149] [150] Sophie Redmond (1907–1955) became the first female doctor in Suriname after graduating from medical school in ...
Marie Elisabeth Zakrzewska (6 September 1829 – 12 May 1902) was a Polish-American physician who made her name as a pioneering female doctor in the United States. [1] As a Berlin native, she found great interest in medicine after assisting her mother, who worked as a midwife.
Rosa Parks. Ketanji Brown Jackson.Ida B. Wells. Kamala Harris. They're just a few of many Black women in history whose names represent a legacy of unparalleled achievement.. These women, along ...
A 2020 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that female doctors spend more time with their patients than their male colleagues — clocking in 2.4 additional minutes per ...
In 1952, Scudder received the Elizabeth Blackwell Citation from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, as one of 1952's five outstanding women doctors. [10] She died on May 23, 1960, at her bungalow. [11] [12] In 1960, Rajendra Prasad, then President of India, hailed Scudder as a “great lady, whose dedication and planned working are exemplary ...
At the same time, she gave lectures to women in the United States and England about the importance of educating women and the profession of medicine for women. [6] In the audience at one of her lectures in England, was a woman named Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , who later became the first woman doctor in England, in 1865.