In 1904, Robson chaired a meeting of Ladies' Discussion Society. This was reported on by the Cambridge Independent Press, who referred to Robson as a "qualified medical woman." Robson worked for the Cambridge Charity Organisation Society and Addenbrooke's Hospital.
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Elizabeth Herdman Lepper OBE, M.B., B.S. (3 July 1883 – 23 December 1971) was a British physician and pathologist. She served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I. Member of the Association of Registered Medical Woman and the Pathological Society.
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Her work led to the popularization of the term low birth weight, which underscored the fact that such babies may or may not have been born early. The descriptors small for gestational age, appropriate for gestational age and large for gestational age originated with Lubchenco's work. In 1973, the Medical College of Pennsylvania named Lubchenco the Medical Woman of the Year.
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The book was notable as it involved not only a woman doctor but a single woman abroad. Gregg discussed this issue, immodestly, in "The Medical Woman in Fiction" in Blackwood's Magazine in 1898. Another piece published in the magazine was the 1897 article "The Indian Mutiny in Fiction". Also her novel An Uncrowned King was serialized in Blackwood's from December 1895 until September 1896.
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Brown wrote 18 articles for medical journals in addition to carrying on a busy practice and raised three children, two of whom also became physicians. Charlotte Blake Brown died in 1904, aged 58 years, in San Francisco.Elizabeth A. Follansbee, "Death of Noted Medical Woman" Southern California Practitioner (May 1904): 180-181. Children's Hospital merged with another institution to become California Pacific Medical Center in 1991.
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"Marriage and the American Medical Woman in Dr. Breen's Practice." The Howellsian 10.2 (2007): 4-8. By late 19th century tenets, Dr. Breen marrying Mr. Libby meant she was neglecting her medical career and accepting her fate as just another married woman, but instead she embraces the challenge and does both. William Dean Howells's depiction of the modern female physician challenged the social and gender roles of the time period.
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After stepping down as the head of Newark Beth Israel's endocrinology department, Finkler served as a chief emeritus and consultant endocrinologist. Finkler was an active member of the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA). She chaired its refugee committee from 1938 to 1948, helping displaced women physicians from Europe to settle and establish practices in the U.S. She was president of the AMWA New Jersey branch and was named by the branch as Medical Woman of the Year in 1956.
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At a time when female doctors were rare, Howells put them at the forefront of his work. In this story, Grace Breen displays little confidence in herself as a physician, and at times regrets having become a doctor. In his essay on “Marriage and the American Medical Woman in Dr. Breen’s Practice”, Frederick Wegener quotes Jean Masteller's article, saying “Grace Breen should never have become a physician, since she lacked…the necessary… temperament to succeed in her rigorous career”.Wegener, Frederick.
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Some of these awards included: Gimbel Philadelphia Award for "outstanding service to humanity," the Medical Woman of the Year, Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania, Daisy Lumpkin Award, the Mercy Douglass Hospital Award, and the Sadie Alexander Award for community service by Delta Sigma Theta. She received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1986. In 1991, she was awarded the most prestigious award at the Penn's Women of Color celebration. This award was named after her, Dr. Helen O. Dickens Lifetime Achievement Award.
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She was also awarded an honorary doctor of science from the University of Colorado, which would be the last of six total degrees she earned in her life. In 1959, she was honored as the American Medical Women's Association's Medical Woman of the Year. In a similar fashion as the honor from Wesleyan, Branham was honored in Georgia Women of Achievement's first class of inductees in 1992. Over the course of her career, she published eighty papers and helped with the composition of many textbooks.
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She became instead one of the first four women students at the Madras Medical College. In three years she gained her Licentiate in Medicine. She set sail to return to England with her children, old enough by then to travel, in a small ship, her eyes fixed on a degree in medicine. Upon her return to England in 1878 she called on Dr. (Mrs.) Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the only qualified medical woman until 1877, who had recently started the London School of Medicine for Women.
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Besides her domestic responsibilities, she was soon entrusted with the supervision of several day schools and of a class of Bible women who were sent out to read the Bible to their country-women. In her thoughtful survey of the condition of woman and childhood in China, quickened by her personal observation and experience, she became deeply impressed with the need of educated Christian woman physicians. She saw that through this means, access and confidence could be gained and the way opened for missionary work. She was the first to ask for a medical woman to be sent to China.
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