Book Review

摘要

Merrilyn Murnane and Beulah Bewley share a common objective which is to provide encouragement for the next generation of women physicians. Murnane, a medical student in the 1950s, explains that her ‘ultimate purpose … is to encourage the rising generation of women doctors to appreciate the struggles of the founding women of medicine in the English speaking world’ (p. 201). Murnane recalls her ignorance of the battles waged by her nineteenth-century predecessors in their efforts to study medicine. Likewise, Bewley, who first studied medicine at Trinity College, Dublin from 1947 to 1953, wrote a memoir, recounting her personal story to be ‘helpful’ to women who wish to pursue careers in science and medicine.