| ISBN |
9781925588248 (paperback) |
| Author |
Murnane, Merrilyn (author.) |
| Title |
Honourable healers : pioneering women doctors : Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Constance Stone / Merrilyn Murnane. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
North Melbourne, Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2015. |
| ©2015. |
| Description |
xvi, 226 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references (pages 214-217) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Footsteps in the sands of time: the early history of women in medicine -- 2. Elizabeth Blackwell: a great moral struggle -- 3. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: ‘ alone in the fortress’ -- 4. ‘The walls of the fort crumbled’: Sophia Jex-Blake and the London School of Medicine for Women -- 5. Constance Stone: ‘the first Australian lady doctor’ -- 6. Pro feminis a feminis: The Queen Victoria Hospital for Women -- 7. A few good women: the founding doctors of the Queen Victoria Hospital -- 8. ‘Gentlemen, the ladies have come to stay!”: women’s striving to enter Australian universities. |
| Summary |
“Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Constance Stone were women of vision and courage who gave honour to the field of medicine. It was the mid-nineteenth century and women were expected to remain at home, as wives and mothers. In Britain, the United States and Australia, teaching was the only respectable profession for women; even nursing was frowned upon. In this environment, three remarkable women rewrote the history books by becoming doctors in a world where women were not even allowed to vote.”--Book jacket. |
| Subjects |
Stone, E. Constance(Emma Constance),1856-1902 |
| Blackwell, Elizabeth, -- 1821-1910 |
| Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, -- 1836-1917 |
| Physicians -- Biography |
| Women physicians -- Australia -- Biography |
| Women physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography |
| Call number |
2019.051 |
