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The first Indian Japanese and Syrian students to obtain a Western Medicine degree from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1885
You might not expect radio to be the medium popularizing an old photo, but so it is this month, with a photo of some extraordinary medical students in Pennsylvania in 1885, who were featured on Public Radio International’s “The World.” A version of the story is continuing to air on the BBC World Service in the U.K.
The photo depicts three students from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), each dressed in the traditional garb of her home country (India, Japan and Syria), at a time when it was unusual for anyone to study internationally at all – let alone women in medicine.
The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania eventually became part of the Drexel University College of Medicine. Matt Herbison, an archivist with College of Medicine’s Legacy Center helped PRI develop its story about these extraordinary women and the remarkable opportunity afforded to them by the Philadelphia institution and no other place in the world at that time.
From PRI:
WHY AMERICA? WELL, IT’S A TRIBUTE TO THE QUAKERS OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHO BELIEVED IN WOMEN’S RIGHTS ENOUGH TO SET UP THE WMCP WAY BACK IN 1850 IN [PHILADELPHIA].*
IT WAS FIRST WOMEN’S MEDICAL COLLEGE IN THE WORLD, AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN ATTRACTING FOREIGN STUDENTS UNABLE TO STUDY MEDICINE IN THEIR HOME COUNTRIES. FIRST THEY CAME FROM ELSEWHERE IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE, AND THEN FROM FURTHER AFIELD.
THESE WOMEN LIKE ANANDIBAI JOSHI IN INDIA AND KEIKO OKAMI IN JAPAN HEARD ABOUT WMCP, AND MADE THE DECISION TO DEFY EXPECTATIONS OF SOCIETY AND FAMILY AND TRAVEL INDEPENDENTLY TO AMERICA TO APPLY, THEN FIGURE OUT HOW TO PAY FOR THEIR TUITION AND BOARD.
IT’S A REMINDER JUST HOW EXCEPTIONAL AMERICA WAS IN THE 19TH CENTURY. WE OFTEN SPEND SO MUCH TIME REMEMBERING ALL THE LEGITIMATELY BAD THINGS IN US HISTORY. BUT COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE WORLD, AMERICA WAS THIS INSPIRATIONAL BEACON OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY.
Another photo from the Legacy Center archives depicts three international female medical students in 1928 (from India, Syria and Latvia) at the Woman’s Medical College.
source- https://newsblog.drexel.edu/2013/07...o-trekked-to-philadelphia-for-medical-school/
a sad ending
Woolf details the hardships Joshi faced even after getting licensed. According to a Drexel archivist he spoke with, India's first female physician died of tuberculosis at 21, too young to ever practice. As for the other two women in the internet's favorite 19th century graduation picture, life wasn't simple going for them either: Islambouli fell off the university’s radar after moving home, an indication that she likely dropped her career. Okami went on to become head of gynecology at a top Tokyo hospital, only to resign when the reigning emperor refused to meet her during a visit to the hospital, because she was a woman.
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You might not expect radio to be the medium popularizing an old photo, but so it is this month, with a photo of some extraordinary medical students in Pennsylvania in 1885, who were featured on Public Radio International’s “The World.” A version of the story is continuing to air on the BBC World Service in the U.K.
The photo depicts three students from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), each dressed in the traditional garb of her home country (India, Japan and Syria), at a time when it was unusual for anyone to study internationally at all – let alone women in medicine.
The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania eventually became part of the Drexel University College of Medicine. Matt Herbison, an archivist with College of Medicine’s Legacy Center helped PRI develop its story about these extraordinary women and the remarkable opportunity afforded to them by the Philadelphia institution and no other place in the world at that time.
From PRI:
WHY AMERICA? WELL, IT’S A TRIBUTE TO THE QUAKERS OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHO BELIEVED IN WOMEN’S RIGHTS ENOUGH TO SET UP THE WMCP WAY BACK IN 1850 IN [PHILADELPHIA].*
IT WAS FIRST WOMEN’S MEDICAL COLLEGE IN THE WORLD, AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN ATTRACTING FOREIGN STUDENTS UNABLE TO STUDY MEDICINE IN THEIR HOME COUNTRIES. FIRST THEY CAME FROM ELSEWHERE IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE, AND THEN FROM FURTHER AFIELD.
THESE WOMEN LIKE ANANDIBAI JOSHI IN INDIA AND KEIKO OKAMI IN JAPAN HEARD ABOUT WMCP, AND MADE THE DECISION TO DEFY EXPECTATIONS OF SOCIETY AND FAMILY AND TRAVEL INDEPENDENTLY TO AMERICA TO APPLY, THEN FIGURE OUT HOW TO PAY FOR THEIR TUITION AND BOARD.
IT’S A REMINDER JUST HOW EXCEPTIONAL AMERICA WAS IN THE 19TH CENTURY. WE OFTEN SPEND SO MUCH TIME REMEMBERING ALL THE LEGITIMATELY BAD THINGS IN US HISTORY. BUT COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE WORLD, AMERICA WAS THIS INSPIRATIONAL BEACON OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY.
Another photo from the Legacy Center archives depicts three international female medical students in 1928 (from India, Syria and Latvia) at the Woman’s Medical College.
source- https://newsblog.drexel.edu/2013/07...o-trekked-to-philadelphia-for-medical-school/
a sad ending
Woolf details the hardships Joshi faced even after getting licensed. According to a Drexel archivist he spoke with, India's first female physician died of tuberculosis at 21, too young to ever practice. As for the other two women in the internet's favorite 19th century graduation picture, life wasn't simple going for them either: Islambouli fell off the university’s radar after moving home, an indication that she likely dropped her career. Okami went on to become head of gynecology at a top Tokyo hospital, only to resign when the reigning emperor refused to meet her during a visit to the hospital, because she was a woman.
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