Abstract:The 21st century’s medicine is predominantly female: two thirds of medical students now are women. In 375 BCE, Plato argued for equal education for male and female professions, explicitly physicians. In Greece and Rome, tombstones testify for patients’ gratitude to women physicians. Christianization opened an era of female subordination. When universities established faculties of medicine during the 13th century, women were excluded and had no place where they could study medicine. Since 1850, female medical s… Show more
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