Women in Medicine: An Encyclopaedia

This is an authoritative, valuable and comprehensive encyclopaedia written by a librarian who, after working in reference for 15 years, was surprised to find no single‐volume reference work on women in medicine. Men’s names predominate in the history of medicine, partly because men mainly wrote the manuscripts that have survived, partly because for much of the early modern period women were not admitted to medical schools, and possibly because of male historical bias. It is about time women in the history of medical science received more recognition and this work provides just that, offering biographies of more than 250 women...