2023-12-07 01:37:44
Three pioneering women in the history of Argentine medicine stood out
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The portraits of Cecilia Grierson, Alicia Moreau de Justo and Julieta Lanteri were hung in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), as a tribute to the three pioneering women of Argentine medicine.
The ceremony was held at Central Museum of Medical Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine of the UBArecently inaugurated, and was attended by Luis Ignacio Brusco, dean of the faculty, Ana Azara, medical manager of primary care at the Elea laboratory and responsible for the Women’s Comprehensive Health Program (SI), among other authorities.
The donation of these paintings “marks a significant milestone in the search for recognition and legitimacy for women in the field of health,” the laboratory highlighted.
“The Central Museum of the Faculty of Medicine is very active and has a lot of material that was located in different sectors of the faculty that we decided to centralize. In that instance, we decided to make this the place where we receive the paintings so that they later remain in the dean’s office. , a symbolic place where the most important decisions are executed and made,” Brusco told Télam.
With respect to role of women in medicine, The dean assured that “it is very curious” to see the evolution of women in this field since there are images on display of classes of graduates from the faculty in 1904 where there were no women, while in 1914 “three can already be seen.”
“From three graduates in 1914 we reach today where between 70% and 80% of the enrollment in the medical career are women“he remarked.
Photo Raul Ferrari
Los paintings were made by the artist Paula Riverowho performed digital way the portraits with colorful backgrounds, which make the faces of the honorees stand out among the sober portraits that decorate the room.
“It was very interesting for me to be able to work on these works because they are for a space that was occupied only by male doctors. The fact that works by women who are references in medicine can coexist was a nice challenge for me as an artist,” she said. Rivero.
Before beginning the event, the Argentine National Anthem was sung in front of an attentive and expectant audience located in the center of the museum in a room covered with paintings, surgical instruments and historical books from past centuries.
In addition to the paintings, the museum also Different belongings of the doctors are exposed Argentina, as medical instruments belonging to Cecilia Grierson dating from the first decades of the 20th century, and her doctoral thesis of 1889 “Hystero-ovariotomies performed at the Women’s Hospital from 1883 to 1889.
Photo Raul Ferrari
Who were the three outstanding women?
Cecilia Grierson was the first Argentine doctor and a pioneer in the fight for women’s rights, she participated in the first cesarean section performed in Argentina and founded the first School of Nurses and the Argentine First Aid Society.
Alicia Moreau de Justo She was one of the first women in rgraduated as a doctor and her area was gynecology, In addition, he served as political leader, journalist, lecturer, writer and activist for women’s rights, drafting a women’s suffrage bill in 1932 that, following being approved by the Deputies, was rejected by the Senate with a conservative majority.
Finally, Julieta Lanteri was one of the first university graduates, pharmacist and doctor Italo Argentine who collaborated with the founding of the Argentine Association of University Women and the National League of Free Thinkers.
Furthermore, it was the first woman to vote on November 26, 1911four decades before the 1947 law that allowed women’s suffrage in 1951.
Photo Raul Ferrari
“These three outstanding women in the history of Argentina, although each one had their own path and specific contributions, share the strength and will with which they made a place in the world of science and have left the legacy through education and the institutions they founded,” he told Télam Azara.
And he added that “They are doctors who worked tirelessly for women’s health and rights and that is why they were the three most relevant doctors selected for this first recognition and space within the Faculty of Medicine.”
“When Cecilia Grierson graduated, she was never allowed to perform surgeries. Today the majority of enrollment is occupied by women, which shows a very great evolution regarding the presence of women in the career, in the profession and in all the specialties,” he concluded.
In that sense, the main debt to women, according to Brusco, is “recognition and visibility” and “a cultural issue, which we believe is being rebuilt, which has to do with trust in a culture that encompasses the entire community, without gender difference.”
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