Josephine Barnes
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Dame Alice Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes,
Early life and education
She was born on 18 August 1912, the eldest of five children of
Career
When the Second World War started, she was appointed to a post at the Samaritan Hospital. From 1947 she ran a mobile obstetric team from University College Hospital.[4] Barnes was the first woman consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Charing Cross Hospital (1954) and the first woman President of the British Medical Association (1979–80).
She was also Chairman of the
In 1988, she became president of the Osler Club of London.[6] In 1994, she delivered the Hunterian Oration at the Hunterian Society. Between 1995 and 1996, Barnes was president of the History of Medicine Society at the Royal Society of Medicine.[5] She was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (of which she was at one time Vice-President).[7]
Marriage
She married
Other
She was a Friend of the English Pocket Opera Company and a Guardian of Westminster Abbey.
References
- ^ Laura Lynn Windsor, Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2002) p. 20
- ^ ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ Max Blythe, ‘Barnes, Dame (Alice) Josephine Mary Taylor (1912–1999)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 4 March 2017
- ISBN 9781576070901.
- ^ a b Thomas, Adrian (Spring 1996). "Radiology History & Heritage Charitable Trust" (PDF). British Society for History of Radiology Occasional Newsletter. 7.
- ^ "Presidents – The Osler Club of London". Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Munk's Roll Details for Alice Josephine Mary Taylor (Dame) Barnes". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
External links
- Listen to an oral history interview with Dame Josephine Barnes – a life story interview recorded for National Life Stories at the British Library
- Barnes, Josephine; Wolstenholme, Gordon (2017). "Dame Josephine Barnes in interview with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme". Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000427.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) – an oral history interview recorded by Oxford Brookes University in partnership with the Royal College of Physicians as part of the Medical Sciences Video Archive - Portraits of Dame (Alice) Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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