Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Nineteenth century

  • The woman doctor as medical and moral authority: Helen Brent MD

    Carol-Ann Farkas Boston, Massachussetts, United States   In the late nineteenth century, many women who dared to study and practice medicine tempered that radical move with the reassuring insistence that, by virtue of their sex, they could combine medical knowledge with feminine, maternal guidance for the physical and moral well-being of their patients. The gender…