Annie Reay Barker (1851–1945) was a medical pioneer who was amongst the first women to qualify as a doctor in the late nineteenth century. Unlike other medical women of her time, Barker did not attract notable attention or publicity, therefore little has been written about her personal and professional life. Following a successful, yet tragically short-lived, career at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, Barker was committed to Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water with a diagnosis of ‘Chronic Mania’. Barker’s story sheds new light on the pressures placed on early women doctors to succeed, as well as the troubled internal dynamics of this pioneering group of women.
展开▼
机译：安妮·雷伊·巴克（Annie Reay Barker，1851-1945 年）是一位医学先驱，是 19 世纪后期第一批获得医生资格的女性之一。与她那个时代的其他医学女性不同，巴克并没有引起显着的关注或公众关注，因此关于她的个人和职业生活的文章很少。在伯明翰和米德兰女子医院 （Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women） 度过了成功但悲惨而短暂的职业生涯后，巴克被诊断出患有“慢性躁狂症”，被送往弗吉尼亚沃特的霍洛威疗养院。巴克的故事为早期女医生的成功所承受的压力，以及这个先驱女性群体的困境内部动力提供了新的视角。
展开▼
