This four-volume collection explores medical women as a global phenomenon during the long nineteenth century. The set explores how British medical women travelled internationally to treat patients who, for reasons of religious, cultural, or social beliefs, were reluctant to seek treatment from male doctors. In this instance, missionary zeal was balanced with concern for women’s health and welfare. The collection includes texts written by those who qualified as medical women and practised either in their national context or those educated abroad, who then returned home to pursue their careers. The latter makes widely available works by women of colour, including the African American woman doctor, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, and Indian female medical practitioner, Rukhmabai. Ultimately, this title will place medical women of the nineteenth and early twentieth century in an international conversation about their professional expectations and responsibilities. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine.
This four-volume collection explores medical women as a global phenomenon during the long nineteenth century through primary sources. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine.
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Claire Brock
Volume 1 Debates
Volume 1 - Introduction
1. Samuel Gregory, Letters to Ladies In Favor of Female Physicians For Their
Own Sex, 3rd edition (Boston: New England Female Medical College, 1856).
2. William Dale, The Present State of the Medical Profession in Great Britain
and Ireland, With Remarks on the Preliminary and Moral Education of Medical
and Surgical Students (London: A.W. Bennett, 1860), frontispiece image of
The Upas of the Medical Profession.
3. Lady Doctors, in Jennie June, Jennie Juneiana: Talks on Womens Topics
(Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1864), pp. 115-117.
4. Thomas Markby, Medical Women (London: Harrison, 1869).
5. A Woman Physician and Surgeon [ Mary Edwards Walker], Unmasked, or The
Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen (Philadelphia: Wm. H. Boyd, 1878).
6. Walter Rivington, The Medical Profession: Being the Essay to Which Was
Awarded the First Carmichael Prize of £200 By the Council of the Royal
College of Surgeons, Ireland (Fannin & Co.: Dublin, 1879), pp. 134-138.
7. Emma Hosken Woodward, Men, Women, and Progress (London: Dulau and Co.,
1885), pp. 119-141.
8. Physical Society, Guys Hospital Gazette (5 December 1891), pp. 290-292
9. Arabella Kenealy, How Women Doctors are Made, Ludgate, IV (May 1897),
pp. 29-35.
10. Pioneer Women Doctors: Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, Dr Garrett Anderson, Dr
Sophia Jex-Blake, in Edwin A. Pratt, Pioneer Women in Victorias Reign:
Being Short Histories of Great Movements (London: George Newnes, Limited,
1897), pp. 92-117.
11. Isabel Thorne, Sketch of the Foundation and Development of the London
School of Medicine for Women (London: Printed by G. Sharrow, 1905).
12. Mary Scharlieb, The Seven Lamps of Medicine: Inaugural Address Delivered
at the London School of Medicine for Women, October 1, 1887 (Oxford: Printed
for Private Circulation by Horace Hart, 1888), and A Womans Words to Women
On the Care of Their Health in England and in India (London: Swan
Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd, 1895), pp. 1-32.
13. Lady Doctors. Increasing Demand for Their Services. Some Objections. The
Question of Nerves, Observer (8 September 1907), p.
3.
14. F. Howard Marsh, Scarcity of Doctors, Cambridge Review (24 February
1915), pp. 221-222
15. Beatrice Harraden, Women Doctors in the War, Windsor Magazine, XLIII
(December 1915-May 1916), pp. 175-193
Index
Volume II: Medical Women
Volume II - Introduction
1. F.I. The Medical Wife, Medical Times and Gazette, II (4 September 1875),
p.
283.
2. Major-General G.G. Alexander, CB, And There Was Light and Grouped on the
Lawn, in Dr Victoria: A Picture from the Period, three volumes (London:
Samuel Tinsley & Co., 1881), pp. 175-197, 198-222.
3. Sydney C. Grier (Hilda Caroline Gregg), Peace with Honour (London and
Edinburgh: Blackwood & Sons, 1897); (Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1902), pp.
1-14, 103-137, 169-186, 255-274, 330-349, 349-413.
4. Julia Grice, A Maiden Effort, B. Rosalie Slaughter, One Short Hour, Dr
Gertrude A. Walker, The Greatest of These is Love, Dr Hester A. Hewlings,
Dr Honora, in Daughters of Aesculapius: Stories Written by Alumnae and
Students of the Womans Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: George
W. Jacobs and Co., 1897), pp. 43-52, 66-79, 80-107, 133-149.
5. L.M.C. Armstrong, Gertrude Mason, M.D. Or The Lady Doctor. A Farce in One
Act for Female Characters Only (New York: Harold Roorbach, 1898).
6. Cornelia Sorabji, Behind the Purdah, Macmillans Magazine, LXXXII:489
(July 1900), pp. 193-200; reproduced in Love and Life Behind the Purdah
(London: Fremantle & Co., 1901).
7. Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, Dr Ellen (New York: The Baker and Taylor Company,
1908), pp. 40-49, 187-204, 218-242
Index
Volume III Global Experiences
Volume III - Introduction
1. A Practical Illustration of Womans Right to Labor; or A Letter from
Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia, Caroline H. Dall, ed.
(Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1860), pp. 85-163.
2. Frances Hoggan, Medical Women for India (Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1882).
3. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D., A Book of Medical Discourses In Two Parts
(Boston: Cashman, Keating & Co., 1883), pp. 1-4; pp. 120-144.
4. Emily Ruete, née Princess of Oman and Zanzibar, Memoirs of an Arabian
Princess: An Autobiography (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888), pp.
208-217.
5. Rukhmabai, Indian Child Marriages: An Appeal to the British Government,
New Review, 3:16 (September 1890) pp. 263-269.
6. Mrs Ashley Carus-Wilson (Mary L.G. Petrie, BA, Lond), The Medical
Education of Women (Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1895).
7. Dr Kate C. (Hurd) Mead, Reminiscences of Medical Study in Europe, in
Daughters of Aesculapius: Stories Written by Alumnae and Students of the
Womans Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and
Co., 1897), pp. 108-122.
8. Photograph of the Taylor Lane Hospital Operating Room (dated 1899), Dr
Matilda A. Evans Collection, National Museum of African American History and
Culture.
9. Dr Lilian Violet Cooper, in Queensland,
1900. A Narrative of Her Past,
Together with Biographies of Her Leading Men (Brisbane: W.H. Wendt & Co.,
1900), p.
175.
10. Lillias Hamilton, M.D., Something about Medical Work in Afghanistan,
London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine 18
(January 1901), pp. 726-730.
11. Lillie E.V. Saville, Notes from my Case-Book, 1902, London Mission,
Peking, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine 25
(May 1903), pp. 164-170.
12. Lilian Austen Robinson, Medical Work in Natal, London (Royal Free
Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine, 28 (May 1904), pp. 249-251.
13. Lillie E.V. Saville, Through Siberia, London (Royal Free Hospital)
School of Medicine for Women Magazine, 28 (May 1904), pp. 342-346.
14. Lilian V. Cooper, Australian Experiences, London (Royal Free Hospital)
School of Medicine for Women Magazine, 29 (October 1904), pp. 386-388.
15. Reports of Military Observers Attached to the Armies in Manchuria during
the Russo-Japanese War (October 1 1906) (Washington: Government Printing
Office, 1906), Part II, pp. 107-108, 146-150.
16. Bertha Van Hoosen, Europe and North Africa, in Petticoat Surgeon
(Chicago: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1947), pp. 158-172.
17. Elizabeth N. MacBean Ross, A Lady Doctor in Bakhtiari Land (London:
Leonard Parsons, 1921), pp. 9-24, 88-96, 97-108, 154-160.
18. Mrs St Clair Stobart, War and Women, From Experience in the Balkans and
Elsewhere (1913), pp. 62-74, 109-133.
19. Mary Frances Billington, The Red Cross in War: Womens Part in the Relief
of Suffering (London, New York, and Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), pp.
7-13, 181-185.
20. Alice M. Benham, Experiences with a Red Cross Hospital in Belgium,
London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine, X:61
(July 1915), pp. 74-79.
Index
Volume IV Patient Perspectives
Volume IV - Introduction
1. Jessie C. Farmer, Shall Female Physicians Treat Male Patients,
California Medical Journal, 9 (1888), pp. 462-464.
2. J. William White, The Supposed Curative Effect of Operations Per Se,
reprinted from Annals of Surgery, 14.2 and 14.3 (August and September 1891),
pp. 81-119, 161-198.
3. The New Hospital for Women, and What Mrs Brown Saw There. By Her
Neighbour, Queen, 10 (September 1892), pp. 62-63.
4. Medicine. An Eminent Lady Doctor, in Professional Women Upon Their
Professions. Conversations Recorded by Margaret Bateson (London: Horace Cox,
1895), pp. 28-31.
5. May Thorne, The After-Effects of Abdominal Section, British Medical
Journal, 1:988 (4 February 1899), pp. 264-265.
6. The Gentlewomans Opinion: On the Lady Doctor, Gentlewoman (19 October
1907), p.
20.
7. Selected Contributions from Dr X.Y.Z., Talks with the Doctor, Woman
Worker, August-December 1908: 7 August, p. 266; 14 August, p. 290; 21 August,
pp. 314; 28 August, p. 340; 4 September, p. 364; 11 September, p. 388; 18
September, p. 406; 25 September, p. 436; 2 October, p. 456; 9 October, p.
480; 16 October, p. 505; 23 October, p. 528; 4 November, p. 576; 11 November,
p. 600; 18 November, p. 631; 25 November, p. 650; 2 December, p. 672; 9
December, p. 703; 16 December, p. 723; 23 December, p.
747.
8. New Jersey, in The Tree of Knowledge. A Document by a Woman (New York:
Stuyvesant Press, 1908), pp. 216-228.
9. Ethel Vaughan-Sawyer, The Patient, London (Royal Free Hospital) School
of Medicine for Women Magazine, 7:48 (March 1911), pp. 350-358.
10. [ Alice Beatty], Medical Tyranny: A Personal Experience (self-published,
1912).
11. Antonio de Navarro, The Scottish Womens Hospital at the French Abbey of
Royaumont (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1917), pp. 187-211.
12. Lady Frances Balfour, Elsie Inglis (London and New York: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1918), pp. 59-81, 111-136.
Index
Dr Claire Brock is Associate Professor in the School of Arts at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research interests are in the history of science and medicine, with a focus on womens place within these domains during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
