• Scot Med J · Apr 1992

    Biography Historical Article

    Scottish women medical pioneers: Manchuria 1894-1912.

    • H H Tsai.
    • Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool.
    • Scot Med J. 1992 Apr 1;37(2):56-9.

    AbstractIn Edwardian Britain, less than 2% of all registered medical practitioners were women. Yet during that era, women played a significant role in providing medical care and education in what were lonely, harrowing and difficult conditions in the Third World. This is the story of how a group of Scottish women doctors brought Western medicine to a remote region of Manchuria between 1894 and 1912.

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