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Mind Map by Niamh MacElvogue, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Niamh MacElvogue
over 10 years ago
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Role of Women
in Medicine
- Nursing and
Hospitals
- Before 1850
- Hospitals couldn't be
afforded by the poor
- Often very dirty
- Most nurses
were untrained
- Nursing
considered an
unacceptable
profession
- Part of wages
paid in gin
- Hospitals couldn't be
afforded by the poor
- Florence Nightingale
- From a rich
background
- Parents were
unhappy with decision
to be a nurse because
it wasn't considered a
respectable profession
- Parents were
unhappy with decision
to be a nurse because
it wasn't considered a
respectable profession
- Trained for 3
months in
Germany
- Came back to UK and
ran hospital for rich
women but wasn't happy
- Crimean War (1854-56)
- 100,000 British
soldiers killed/injured
but many more fell ill
through typhus and
other diseases
- Florence
was asked to
take control
of nursing in
Scutari
- Took 38
nurses
with her
- Horrified at conditions
- No
toilets
- No cleaning basins,
soaps, mops, towels
or cleaning materials
- No
toilets
- Wrote to government
describing conditions
and requesting what
she needed (i.e.
cleaning materials)
- Hired 200
builders to
rebuild part
of a ward
- Some doctors
objected to being
ordered around by a
nurse but Florence
persevered
- Reduced
death rate from
40% to 2%
- 100,000 British
soldiers killed/injured
but many more fell ill
through typhus and
other diseases
- Back in Britain
- Heralded as 'Lady
with the Lamp'
- National hero
- National hero
- Wrote a book
called 'Notes on
Nursing' to tell the
government how to
improve things
- Raised £44,000 to set
up Britain's first nurse
training school
- Also published 'Notes
on Hospitals' which
introduced new ideas
about hospital design
- Well-ventilated,
open, spacious
- Mistaken idea about miasma but right concept
- Well-ventilated,
open, spacious
- Heralded as 'Lady
with the Lamp'
- Controversy
- She refused to
believe in the Germ
Theory and taught her
nurses about miasma
- She may not have
actually improved
conditions in Scutari
- However she began to
change the image of
nursing
- She had the right
idea about hospital
improvements
- However she began to
change the image of
nursing
- She refused to
believe in the Germ
Theory and taught her
nurses about miasma
- From a rich
background
- Before 1850
- Doctors
- Sophia
Jex-Blake
- Life
- Born to
physician
father with
traditional
views on
women's
education
- Convinced to
allow to go to
university to
become a
maths tutor
- 1869 - convinced Edinburgh
University to allow her to learn
to be a doctor
- However they said that
they couldn't provide a
woman with a degree
- Born to
physician
father with
traditional
views on
women's
education
- Achievements
- Took the university
to court and lost
- Took her case to parliament and in 1875, a
law was passed that meant women could
not be restricted from gaining medical
qualifications on grounds of gender
- Despite this, she qualified as
a doctor in Ireland after gaining
her degree in Switzerland
- Despite this, she qualified as
a doctor in Ireland after gaining
her degree in Switzerland
- In 1874, she co-founded the London
School of 'Medicine for Women'
- Elizabeth Garret Anderson
was also a co-founder
- Elizabeth Garret Anderson
was also a co-founder
- Took the university
to court and lost
- Limitations on her success
- Father with traditional views
- Sexism and
attitude
toward women
- Men objecting to
her presence at the
university
- Father with traditional views
- Life
- Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson
- Couldn't get on any
courses at university
- Some men agreed
to tutor her privately
and she passed the
Apothecaries exam
in 1865
- She was refused a
license but won a court
appeal and was given one
- However, they refused to
pass any other students
who studied privately
- She was refused a
license but won a court
appeal and was given one
- 1869 - qualified
abroad in Paris and
achieved top grades
- Got on the Medical
Register on return to Britain
- Showed how and
inspired people to
do the same
- Elizabeth Hoggon (1870)
- Elizabeth
Walker (1872)
- Elizabeth Hoggon (1870)
- Continued limitations
- Woman and would
not have been very
well respected
- Very long,
arduous process
- Women still
couldn't go to
university in
Britain
- Woman and would
not have been very
well respected
- 1874 -
co-founded
London School
of Medicine for
Women
- Couldn't get on any
courses at university
- Attitudes in the 1850s
- People didn't think that
women had the ability
- 1858 - General Medical Act,
everyone had to put their
names on General Medical
Register in order to practise
- Only one woman,
Elizabeth Blackwell,
in 1858
- Qualified in USA
- Qualified in USA
- Only one woman,
Elizabeth Blackwell,
in 1858
- English universities wouldn't
accept them so they couldn't
qualify
- People didn't think that
women had the ability
- Sophia
Jex-Blake
- World Wars
- Some women had to take
the places of male doctors
- More wounded and
so more medical
staff needed
- Some women had to take
the places of male doctors
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