Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead

Feminist gynecologist Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead championed the special interests of women as patients and promoted female physicians as the best equipped to handle all aspects of maternal and child health. Hurd-Mead was the consulting gynecologist at the Middlesex County Hospital in Connecticut from 1907 until her retirement in 1925. After conducting extensive research throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa, she published A History of Women in Medicine: From the Earliest of Times to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century in 1938. This was the first comprehensive historical and international treatment of women in the medical profession.