Women's Role In Medicine

Question 0

What was women’s role in the Middle Ages?

Answer 0

They could perform treatments from home

Local soothsayers & healers

could not become doctors

Question 1

What was women’s role in ancient times?

Answer 1

They were allowed to be doctors

Question 2

What law did Henry V pass?

Answer 2

Preventing women from practising medicine

Question 3

What were women involved in medicine in the Middle Ages accused of?

Answer 3

Witchcraft

Question 4

In the 1700s, what was compulsory to become a doctor?

Could women achieve this?

Answer 4

Had to have passed an exam at uni

Women were not allowed to go to uni

Question 5

When was the ‘general medical register’ produced?

Answer 5

1858

Question 6

What was the general medical register?

Answer 6

A list of all qualified medics

Question 7

Were women allowed to be midwives?

Answer 7

They retained their role of midwives until the 1700’s

After that it became fashionable to have a male doctor as they could use more complex equipment

Question 8

Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?

Answer 8

An American doctor, who at the time was the only woman on the general medical register

Question 9

How did Elizabeth Blackwell become a doctor when women couldn’t go to uni?

Answer 9

She trained and went to uni in America (1849) and then moved to England

Question 10

What was the long term effect of Elizabeth Blackwell?

Answer 10

She was an ambassador for female medics

Inspired many women to become doctors