Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
General Medical Council
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1800: The College of Surgeons in London received...
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1800
The College of Surgeons in London received a royal charter and became the Royal College of Surgeons
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Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
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Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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2 August 1858: The Medical Act passed, allowing for the...
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2 August 1858
The Medical Act passed, allowing for the creation of a General Medical Council
to regulate education and formal registration of all medical practitioners in Great Britain and Ireland.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2024.
1860: The General Medical Council was granted a...
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1860
The General Medical Council
was granted a new charter empowering it to exclude practitioners from the Medical Register if they held a foreign degree.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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July 1875: The General Medical Council was forced to...
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July 1875
The General Medical Council
was forced to issue a statement explaining its position on medical women after a three-day debate in Parliament.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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1886: The General Medical Council asserted that...
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1886
The General Medical Council
asserted that qualification in medicine, surgery, and midwifery was necessary to obtain a place on the Medical Register.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.