Book ID: CBB159066174

Beulah Bewley: My Life as a Woman and Doctor (2016)

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Bewley, Susan (Editor)
Bewley, Beulah (Author)


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Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 235 pp.
Language: English

Beulah Knox wanted to be a doctor from the age of five and was inspired by her local GP's interest in her and her illnesses, going so far as to allow her to accompany him on home visits in his pony and trap during World War II. Her planned career as a hospital paediatrician was thwarted by emigration, marriage to a psychiatrist, and five children who kept her busy whilst she worked part time in women and children's health for a decade. She retrained as an academic particularly focusing on children's smoking and rose in her second career in Public Health to the top of her profession. She ended up as Honorary Treasurer of the General Medical Council, the highest rank any woman has achieved there, and was made a Dame of the British Empire for her work for women in medicine.

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Review Claire Brock (2017) Review of "Beulah Bewley: My Life as a Woman and Doctor". Social History of Medicine (pp. 249-251). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Proctor, Robert N.
Oliva, Paolo Riccardo
Craig Alex Biegel
Patrizia Cincinnati
Snook, Edith
Wilmshurst, Sara
Journals
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Vesalius
The Lancet
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Social History of Medicine
Medical History
Publishers
Cierre edizioni
Brewin Books
Società Editrice Universo
University of Michigan Press
Reaktion Books
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Public health
Children's diseases
Medicine
Tobacco
Pediatrics
Children
People
Morrison, Phillip
Meierhofer, Marie
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
Canada
United States
Italy
Great Britain
Rwanda
Congo
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