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Spiegel AD, Suskind PB. Mary Edwards Walker, M.D.: a feminist physician a century ahead of her time. J Community Health. 1996;21(3):211-35doi: 10.1007/BF01558000.
Spiegel, A. D., & Suskind, P. B. (1996). Mary Edwards Walker, M.D.: a feminist physician a century ahead of her time. Journal of community health, 21(3), 211-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01558000
Spiegel, A D, and Suskind, P B. "Mary Edwards Walker, M.D.: a feminist physician a century ahead of her time." Journal of community health vol. 21,3 (1996): 211-35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01558000
Spiegel AD, Suskind PB. Mary Edwards Walker, M.D.: a feminist physician a century ahead of her time. J Community Health. 1996 Jun;21(3):211-35. doi: 10.1007/BF01558000. PMID: 8726211.
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J Community Health. 1996 Jun;21(3):211-35. doi: 10.1007/BF01558000.

Mary Edwards Walker, M.D.: a feminist physician a century ahead of her time.

Journal of community health

A D Spiegel, P B Suskind

Affiliations

  1. State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn 11203, USA.

PMID: 8726211 DOI: 10.1007/BF01558000

Abstract

In her teens, Mary Edwards Walker already wore the "bloomer" outfit began to campaign for reforming the "unhygienic" clothing of women. Assertively, she attended medical school and earned her M.D. degree. Due to prejudice, her practice did not flourish and she moved to Washington to offer her medical services to the Union as the Civil War began. Rebuffed by the male medical bureaucrats, she volunteered her services anyway. Eventually, she was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the only women to ever gain such distinction. After the war, Walker became a journalist, an author of two sensational books, a political lobbyist, a suffrage campaigner, a professional and public lecturer, an ardent dress reformer, a peace activist, a Utopianist and a women's right advocate. Light-years ahead of her times, Dr. Walker was an intelligent, independent, irrepressible and indefatigable proponent for a host of worthy causes.

References

  1. J Am Med Womens Assoc. 1962 Nov;17:906-7 - PubMed
  2. Med Womans J. 1946 Oct;53(10):43-51 - PubMed

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