The history of women as professionals in medicine does not begin in America in 1849 with Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first woman to earn an M.D. in modern times; nor in Naples in 1422, with Costanza Calenda, the first woman we know of to receive a doctorare in medicine from a university; nor in Naples in 1321, with Francesca de Romana, the earliest woman we currently know to have heen licensed to practice medicine generally, nor in Catania in 1276, with Virdimura, a Jew and wife of a Doctor Pasquale, who was licenced to practice on paupers, but extends back to at least the fifth century B.C. in Greece. (Read entire post.)Share
Friday, March 8, 2013
Women Physicians in Greece, Rome and Byzantium
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