Person

Stone, Emma Constance (Constance) (1856 - 1902)

Born
4 December 1856
Hobart Town, Tasmania, Australia
Died
29 December 1902
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Physician
Alternative Names
  • Stone, Constance (Also known as)

Summary

Emma Stone played a leading role in the formation of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, which was funded by a jubilee shilling fund appeal and officially opened in July 1899.

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Educated Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, USA and University of Trinity College, Toronto, Canada (MD, ChM 1888). New Hospital for Women, London (qualifying as a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries) 1889, first woman to register with the Medical Board of Victoria 1890, practised one day a week at the free dispensary attached to Dr Singleton's mission in Collingwood. Founded the Queen Victoria Hospital. Foundation member 1895 of the Victorian Medical Women's Society.

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Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

  • Murnane, Merrilyn, Honourable healers: pioneering women doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Constance Stone (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2015), 225 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Russell, Penny, 'Stone, Emma Constance (1856-1902) and Grace Clara Stone (1860-1957), medical practitioners' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 98-100. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120115b.htm. Details
  • Wells, Monika, 'Constance Stone (1856-1902) medical officer' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details

Journal Articles

  • Roberts, S., 'Constance Stone - Australia's First Woman Doctor', Journal of Medical Biography, 3 (1995), 1-7. Details

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See also

  • McCarthy, Louella, 'Finding a space for women: the British Medical Association and women doctors in Australia, 1880 - 1939', Medical History, 62 (1) (2018), 91-111. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2017.74. Details
  • Neve, Marjorie Hutton, This mad folly: the history of Australia's pioneer women doctors (Sydney: Library of Australian history, 1980), 174 pp. Details

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