Role Of Women In Medicine

Question 1

Florence Nightingale’s backround?

Answer 1

Wealthy middle-class backround
Whet to Germany for nurse training as no formal training was provided in england

Question 2

Which military hospital was Florence nightingale deployed to?

Answer 2

Scutari during the Crimean War

Question 3

What were the conditions in Scutari when Florence arrived?

Answer 3

Patients bed sharing/on floor
Infested by lice and fleas
Typhoid fever and cholera common
Dificulty to get medical and food supplies
Leaking roof

Question 4

When was Florence deployed to Scutari?

Answer 4

1853

Question 5

What did Nightingale believe was the cause of disease?

Answer 5

Miasma

Question 6

What did she do to improve the conditions in Scutari?

Answer 6

Opened windows to improve air flow
Cleaning surfaces
Improved quality of food
Buying new supplies using fundaised money

Question 7

When did Florence nightingale publish Notes on Hospitals?

Answer 7

1859

Question 8

What did Notes on Hospitals say?

Answer 8

Recommending high cleanliness, lots of fresh and space between beds

Question 9

What was the context for change in women in medicine in 1860?

Answer 9

• Woman usually responsible for ill in household, few became doctors due to intrenched sexism in regards to education
• Florence nightingale made it more acceptable for women to train as nurses
• Suffragist societies in the 1800s led to demands for more improvements, e.g educations & employment opportunities
• Needed to accepted to Royal College of Surgeons, Royal College of Physicians or Society of Apothecaries, to be listed on medical register

Question 10

Who was Elizabeth Garrett?

Answer 10

• Elizabeth Garrett, inspired by Elizabeth Blackwell, attended lectures in her free time as a nurse in Middlesex hospital, male students complained
• paid for private lessons after being rejected from several medical schools and dissected corpses in her own rom
• completed her medical training, non of Colleges would except her before she treated to sue Society of apothecaries, she got accepted and was fully qualified by 1865.
• Opened St Mary’s Dispensary in London in 1866, went to France gained medical degree, returned in 1872 and expanded dispensary
• Became the only female member of the British Medical Association in 1873.
• Elected mayor of Aldeburgh in 1908 (first female mayor)