biography
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Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa
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| female
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| lived:
| (1840–1912)
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| biography:
| Physician and pioneer of medical education for women, born in Hastings, East Sussex, SE England, UK. She studied at Queen's College for Women, London, and became a tutor in mathematics there (1859–61). She then studied medicine in New York City (1865–8) under Elizabeth Blackwell, continuing her studies at Edinburgh University. With five other women she was allowed to matriculate in 1869, but the university authorities reversed their decision in 1873. She waged a public campaign in London, opened the London School of Medicine for Women (1874), and won her campaign when medical examiners were permitted by law to examine women students (1876). She later founded a medical school in Edinburgh (1886). |
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