Herstory by Katherine Halligan

Author:Katherine Halligan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: S&S Books for Young Readers
Published: 2018-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

HEALING HANDS

Elizabeth became a teacher and set up a school with her sisters because she needed the money and because she loved history. In fact, she found everything to do with the human body disgusting! But then something happened to change her mind-and her life-completely: a close friend, who was dying, said to her that she would not have suffered as much if her doctor had been a woman. In that moment, Elizabeth was inspired to become a doctor. But it was not easy, because no woman had ever done it before in America, nor indeed in most of the world.

The very first record of a female doctor is of Agnodice, who worked in Greece around 350 BC. Dorotea Bucca was a physician in Italy sometime before 1390. And of course, many thousands of women worked as midwives and healers, but were not formally trained or recognized as doctors. The medical world was a man’s world, and it did not welcome women.

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