The First Woman Doctor

Practitioners with a lack of formal education did medical care in the 17th century. Many women and laypeople in that time had lots of expertise in herbal medicines and folk antidotes to cure colonists. The first curer people would turn to if they were sick would be a neighbor or a family member. However, there was a new type of physician in the 18th century. This was usually a young man from a wealthy family who went to an elite university who didn 't see himself as a doctor, but more as a scientist. The new physicians learned anatomy through dissection, assisted researchers, and helped with medical experiments. They also observed surgical procedures, and sat through lectures about new advances in the department of medical science. Alongside the scientists, there were also surgeons. The military was where many surgeons

Nursing care was unscientific and consisted of assisting patients with usual body functions; and was typically administered by women of a religious order or by women who by nature of their lifestyle frequented hospitals. Hospital care was for the poor and destitute; since home based medical care was better than risking additional infections in the dirty, crowded, and disease-ridden hospitals. During the typhus epidemic of 1852, hospital staff and patients suffered the greatest morbidity and mortality. (Ranade , 199817-19)

At this time there was no physician-patient relationship, this being due to the fact that physicians were there to treat the body and the general view was that patients were unable to provide accurate evidence without “feelings and emotions” getting in the way. This Era at the bottom line was about facts, evidence and physical direct ailments. The nursing profession was just starting to be developed in this Era. The “nurses” of this time were family members, nuns, priests, neighbors who were all untrained. The start of some of the founding nurses were seen such as Florence Nightingale. She started to look at sanitary conditions and nutrition, some might say she was the original nurse. Her contribution the start of nursing is very significant. She trained some of the first nurses during the Crimean War and with her training she was able to statistically show how sanitary conditions, cleanliness and nutrition were able to significantly decrease the death rate of Crimean soldiers. In Era I physicians really only took care of one part of the “human”, because as humans we are a composition of the physical, mental and soul. Those three parts are what give us humanity and higher thinking. So Era I does not create a fully encompassing view of medicine.

For physicians practicing in the 19th century, there was a deep connection between mind and body. In the eyes

I unfortunately didn’t have enough time to of course to completely solidify my findings. But one thing that is for sure is that the Healthcare field grew in a short amount of time, there was so much intelligence back then that we only think of bone saw but in reality they had things that seemed to defy what should have been normal at the time, and this of course is just a start of my findings. For the research part on woman I found that surprisingly Florence Nightingale wasn’t technically the first Nurse. There had been a pioneer in England that you’ll find in one of my sources listed in the bibliography that isn’t necessarily relevant to make the point. Next I found that woman seemed to pioneer it as a means for a platform to build in a way the woman’s right moment and just because they wanted to help out. Especially when wars broke out there had been fewer men at home and more men in the Homefront. In total I believe that this topic could swing to a different topic in multiple ways such as Healthcare through the ages, the war, how men became nurses, the process of nursing school back then, and as you can see this also goes on. My one un-answered question is how they cured someone back then. There’s mostly home cures but no solid book from a professional that could tell me what exactly they did back then. Overall I believe I’ve covered this

The source provides Mrs.Lacks background information to help lead the topic. Explains that she was a native of rural southern Virginia, and lived in, Maryland. She was admitted to the John Hopkins’s hospital due to abdominal pain and vaginal spotting. She soon died of cervical cancer in 1951. The source delves into the injustice that was done with

She never wanted to see the doctor nor undergo any of the treatments that they first offered her because she didn’t trust in the system. This could either have been due to low economic status in her family or her racial determinants. Community public health was affected by somatic cell fusion, which was the formation of two cells of different diseases. They felt that these scientists were going to create “monsters” or odd creations. On a national level public health was affected when the ethical standard came into play of if it was right to use cells of another human for research. Not only was that particular study with Henrietta’s cells controversial but another that dealt with changing the DNA of some of her cells to infect them with HIV was not well liked either. This did help with the fight against AIDS but activists saw this as immoral and irresponsible. Public Health has affected several parts of the story of Henrietta Lacks and continues to be a prominent part of findings that stemmed from her

Intention Essay Throughout American history, racism and the inequalities that come with it have haunted countless minorities. Of these minorities, African Americans, or blacks, have likely experienced the greatest amount of racial discrimination through both subjugation and segregation. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot reveals the inequalities imposed upon the blacks within the medical community. Prior to writing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot spent months trying to get in contact with Henrietta’s living relatives.

Elizabeth Blackwell deserves to be the TIME’s Women of the year because she created many opportunities for women and changed medicine. Blackwell was born February 3, 1821 in Bristol, England. Blackwell along with with her 8 siblings, mom and dad moved to New York in 1832 after her father's sugarcane industry was shut down. Elizabeth Blackwell became a teacher in America but later in 1849, Blackwell became the first woman in America to be awarded a medical degree, where she graduated from Geneva Medical College. Blackwell decided she wanted to pursue this career because one of her close friend had suggested that they would have been spared her worst suffering if her physician would have been a woman. Blackwell saved many lives. Blackwell also

In between the facts and reports, Rebecca Skloot let us have a glimpse into Henrietta life. She is an African-American woman living with her husband and five children in Baltimore, Maryland. The Lack’s family is financially unstable since Henrietta have to sought help from a charity hospital. The family background brought up to another main point which is race and social class. People come to John Hopkins Hospital to seek for free medication and treatment therefore they are treated differently, “Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. Many scientists believed that since patients were treated for free in the public wards, it was fair to use them as research subjects as a form of payment” (Skloot, 2010). It is also no surprise that the hospital and doctors treated Henrietta different because she is the black women. Back in 1951 segregation between black and white was still an ongoing problem. This tragic story would never happen if Henrietta was a middle class, white woman. They would have asked for her consent before using her cells for research. There is also studies that shows black patients receive different treatment and medication compared to white

Woolsey articulates, “‘these annoyances could not have been endured by the nurses but for the knowledge that they were pioneers, who were, if possibly, to gain standing ground for others-who must create the position they wished to occupy” . This excerpt exposes the true barrier between the sexes in the workplace. However, Woolsey brings up an important point- although women were treated at an unfair advantage, their persistence in the workplace paved the way for future women. Miss Bucklin recalls her first day entering the hospital thinking, “‘If any woman has done this, I can’” . Bucklin’s statement truly illuminates how one woman’s victory was a victory for all women; one female nurse or doctor inspired many more to enter the field of medicine regardless of gender

Along her journey in the field of medicine she always tried to promote medical education for women. If fact, she ended up opening up a medical college for women.

In 1850, Elizabeth returned to New York City and was not allowed to practice medicine in any hospital. During this time, she fought hard for her rights to practice medicine. She and her sister Emily started the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. This won her acclaim from everyone and it allowed a place for women to practice medicine. She also gained tremendous recognition for her ability to meet the problems presented by the Civil War. Within the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, she opened a medical college for women.

As a young lady, Elizabeth Blackwell was similar to other women her age. She had an emotional and passionate nature and had many romantic pursuits. However, in 1838, she moved

There were doctors in Colonial America. When a doctor visits a patient to check upon the sick person's health, their pay will be in anything but money such as chopped woods, vegetables, et cetera for the poor people. The poor people did not have money as stated in A Visit to a Colonial Times Doctor’s Office. They usually rely on their farming to feed their families and things such as money were scarce. Those who are of the contrary to the low income and the rural settings have better access to health and opportunities as written in Colonial Medicine (5). They can pay their doctor on the spot and can even request their choice of doctors. In modern America, a new change to the health care business is arriving. With the currently new healthcare, everyone shall be able to hopefully