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Publication
Kent Town, South Australia : Wakefield Press
Description
History of female doctors in South Australia, including a history of the South Australian Medical Women's Society, and biographies of 62 doctors who graduated or worked in South Australia between 1891 and 1993.
Local notes
Part 2 Graduates from 1891-1911
Graduates 1912-1938
Soft cover book, printed with the image of Dr Violet Plummer, the first woman to practice in South Australia. The fly-page is printed with the details "This book was compiled by Members of the South Australian Medical Women's Society" "established in 1928 to promote all branches of medical science, to further the interests of medical women and to deal with any matters of health, especially those affecting women"
The foreword is by Dame Roma Mitchell, Governor of South Australia, 1994.
The editors of this book, Drs D Craven, F Moccatta, J Nicholls, P Nicholls and I Speed, have complied the stories of 62 South Australian Medical Women who graduated MBBS from 1891 to 1953. The stories include medical and social aspects of their life from the outback of Australia to war-torn Europe.
Graduates 1939-1953