Women and Medical Education (ES 5-vol. set)

Published by Eureka Press, Tokyo, and distributed outside Japan by Routledge.

From the Introduction by Setsuko Kagawa

The history of women’s medical education is one of the most remarkable aspects of social change in nineteenth-century Britain. Before the modernization and professionalization of medicine, women played an important part in the familial or local medical care systems. However, they were gradually excluded from formal medical practice due to a lack of systematic medical education...