A Woman's Quest: The life of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D.

Chapter 2: MARIE E. ZAKRZEWSKA, M.D. (1829-1902)

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The memoir traces a woman's journey from childhood curiosity and household apprenticeship into formal midwifery training and extended medical study across continents, documenting the difficulties women encountered in medical schools, hospitals, and professional societies. It recounts her clinical and teaching appointments, efforts to elevate educational and nursing standards, leadership in founding hospital departments and institutions for women and children, and responses to public hostility and institutional exclusion. Interwoven reflections consider migration, professional reform, and the gradual creation of opportunities that allowed more women to pursue clinical practice and medical education.

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Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D.
(From a photograph thought to have been taken some time in the ’60’s.)

MARIE E. ZAKRZEWSKA, M.D. (1829-1902)

Accoucheuse en chef, Royal Hospital Charité, Berlin, Prussia; First Resident Physician, New York Infirmary for Women and Children, New York; Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, and Founder and Attending Physician of the Clinical Department (Hospital), New England Female Medical College, Boston; Founder and First Attending Physician, New England Hospital for Women and Children, Boston.