Listening to the Ga: Cicely Williams' discovery of kwashiorkor on the Gold Coast.
@article{Stanton2001ListeningTT, title={Listening to the Ga: Cicely Williams' discovery of kwashiorkor on the Gold Coast.}, author={Jennifer Stanton}, journal={Clio medica}, year={2001}, volume={61}, pages={ 149-71 } }
Cicely Williams’ career illustrates several themes which are relevant to ‘women in modern medicine’. As a woman doctor, qualified at the end of the First World War, when male doctors were returning from the front, she faced impossible odds in securing a job in England, so worked overseas and trained in tropical medicine. In 1929 she entered the Colonial Medical Service in a post specifically earmarked for women: a Woman Medical Officer concerned with maternal and child health, in what was then…
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