Women and medicine

Gender and Medicine Seminar Series
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, London, Feb-Mar 2008

Women and the medical professions
The text of my lecture given to the Society of Apothecaries Diploma in the History of Medicine Course, 1994-1998, 2001-2003. Some of the material on the C20th featured in my paper on women in medicine and science in Sybil Oldfield's volume, This Working-Day World: women's lives and cultures in Britain, 1914-1945 (1994), but most of it is unlikely to appear anywhere else in this form. Unfortunately I haven't yet worked out a way to include the many slides.

Plus the associated handouts:

Women enter the medical profession in Britain, 1849-1894

Institutions which admitted women to medical education,
and when, before 1948 and the National Health Service after which all teaching hospitals had to admit women students (though quotas remained in existence for several decades)

Women in medicine: some figures
of the professional areas in which they were found and in what concentration, from surveys done in 1928, 1944, and 1974

Medical Women's Federation website
which includes (the somewhattruncated) text of my article '80 years of the Medical Women's Federation: The MWF archives in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine', published in Medical Woman: Bulletin of the Medical Women's Federation, Vol 16 no 2, Summer 1997.

Further reading: see my article on 'Women in science: medicine' in Reader's Guide to the History of Science, edited by Arne Hessenbruch, Fitzroy Dearborn (2000)

Women in science (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Biographical Dictionary of British Women Humanitarians, edited by Sybil Oldfield (2001), contains many women doctors and other health workers. Further information

WHOM: Listserv for Women Historians of Medicine

Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians
Online exhibition at the National Library of Medicine

The Archives for Women in Medicine at the Countway Center for the History of Medicine, Boston, USA

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