Medicine & Surgery
First Indian women physicians
1886Kadambini Ganguly & Anandibai JoshiMedical degrees (Calcutta; Pennsylvania)Gujarat
1886
Among the first South Asian women to qualify in Western medicine.
- Dated
- 1886
- As scholars put it
- 1886
- Originator
- Kadambini Ganguly & Anandibai Joshi
- Source text
- Medical degrees (Calcutta; Pennsylvania)
- Region
- Gujarat
- Discipline
- Medicine & Surgery
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Fair to say
Firsts in access, not in medical discovery.
Path to modern innovation
Opened medicine to Indian women.
Transmission
Joshi studied in the US.
References
- 1Biographical histories
Further reading
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