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Women physicians

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Physicians
Women in medicine

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Images from the collections

Images about Women physicians

15 images from works
  • A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Engraving after J. Northcote.
  • A vicar asking a woman if she likes her new female doctor, the woman retorts that she prefers male doctors and finds them more genteel. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • A woman doctor bandaging a young woman's hand. Mezzotint, 1787.
  • New York Infirmary and Women's Medical College, New York City. Coloured wood engraving, 1868.
  • M0017817: Portrait of Elsie Inglis (1864-1917)
  • A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Coloured mezzotint by J. Walker, ca. 1783, after J. Northcote.
  • A woman doctor is taking the pulse of a male patient seated in an armchair. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.
  • M0018515: "Les femmes Medecins", French satirical drawing
  • An attractive female doctor being approached by three burly men enquiring about nursing work. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1870.
  • A woman doctor bandaging a young woman's hand. Mezzotint, 1787.
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Works from the collections

56 works

    • Books

    Unexpected always happens : journal of a doctor in Sierra-Leone / Libby Wilson.

    Elizabeth Wilson | Date: 1995
    • Books

    Delicate authority : ethos in the public rhetoric of nineteenth-century American women physicians / by Carolyn Skinner.

    Skinner, Carolyn, 1977- | Date: 2006
    • Books

    Women doctors in war / Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Graf.

    Bellafaire, Judith, 1954- | Date: [2009]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A woman doctor bandaging a young woman's hand. Mezzotint, 1787.

    | Date: 10 April 1787 | Reference: 21590i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    New York Infirmary and Women's Medical College, New York City. Coloured wood engraving, 1868.

    | Date: 1868 | Reference: 25294i
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Related topics

Physicians, Women
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Women in medicine
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