Honourable healers : pioneering women doctors : Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Constance Stone
Murnane, Merrilyn2015
Book
Subject: "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.
Main title:
Author:
Murnane, Merrilyn, author
Imprint:
North Melbourne, Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2015.©2015
Collation:
xvi, 226 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographic references (pages 214-217) and index.
Contents:
1. Footsteps in the sands of time: the early history of women in medicine2. Elizabeth Blackwell: a great moral struggle3. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: ' alone in the fortress'4. 'The walls of the fort crumbled': Sophia Jex-Blake and the London School of Medicine for Women5. Constance Stone: 'the first Australian lady doctor'6. Pro feminis a feminis: The Queen Victoria Hospital for Women7. A few good women: the founding doctors of the Queen Victoria Hospital8. 'Gentlemen, the ladies have come to stay!": women's striving to enter Australian universities.
ISBN:
9781925588248 (paperback)
Dewey class:
610.922610.695
LC class:
R692
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
423698
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | Local History Non Fiction | LH 610.695 MURN | Available |
| East Melbourne Library | Local History Reference | LH REF 610.695 MURN | Not for loan (Set: 14 Sep 2017) |
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | Local History Non Fiction | LH 610.695 MURN | Available |
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Local History Non Fiction | LH 610.922 MURN | Available |
| North Melbourne Library | Local History Non Fiction | LH 610.695 MURN | Available |